[ale] DISPLAY DRIVER problem

[Geoffrey]

It always helps to RTFM. :)

ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> The README of the NVIDIA drivers says:
> 
>    "If you want to build NVdriver for a system other than the compiling
>     system, then you'll need to run the make as:
> 
>         $ make SYSINCLUDE=/src/kern/my-smp-kernel/include
> 
>     to generate an NVdriver that will work on the kernel whose include
>     files are in /src/kern/my-smp-kernel/include.  This kernel must
>     have been completely configured (make menuconfig dep)."
> 
> Unfortunately, I do not have a "full" install of Redhat ( I believe I lack the 
> kernel source) AND I update the kernel using up2date (another reason I 
> probably don't have them.
> 
> I searched Redhat.com for them, and could not find them.
> I will probably call for help tomorrow.
> 
> Drew
> 
> On Wednesday 05 February 2003 20:59, Jonathan Glass (IBB) wrote:
> 
>>You've downloaded the NVIDIA kernel driver for kernel # 2.4.18-18.0, and
>>trying it install it on either 2.4.18-14 or 2.4.18-24.8.0 (different
>>patch levels of the kernel).  This probably won't work, as the rpm
>>install looks for the /lib/modules/2.4.18-18.8.0 directory, which
>>doesn't exist on your machine (WAG).
>>
>>It looks like what is happening is the installer is dropping the
>>nvidia.o driver file in the
>>/lib/modules/2.4.18-18.8.0/kernel/drivers/video directory, and trying to
>>use modprobe to load it, but it is unable to find the driver b/c you are
>>running a different kernel.
>>
>>Also, are you running an Athlon kernel, or i686? "uname -a".  Are you
>>sure you've downloaded the appropriate NVIDIA kernel driver for your
>>kernel?  It may be worth downloading the source RPM, rebuilding it, then
>>installing it.
>>
>>I'll update my kernel on my work machine in the morning and see if I can
>>duplicate this error.
>>
>>Remember, worse case scenario, you can do an "rpm -Uvh NVIDIA_*.rpm
>>--force" to force the installation.  I"ve done this more than once,
>>installing the NVIDIA kernel driver for each version of the kernel on a
>>given machine (research machine, no clue why they want 4 different
>>kernels).
>>
>>If you have no luck with this, give me a call in the morning
>>(http://www.ibb.gatech.edu/administration.html for the number), and I'll
>>try to help you out with it.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Jonathan
>>
>>On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 20:25, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
>>
>>>Here are the results of "rpm -q kernel"
>>>
>>>kernel-2.4.18-14
>>>kernel-2.4.18-24.8.0
>>
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