Loading NVidia XFree 4.01 Modules When Booting? 5
A not-so Anonymous Coward asks: "I am using RH 6.0 and wanted to try the Nvidia 3D accelerated driver (TNT2) for XFree86 4.01. I upgraded to kernel 2.2.16 with RPM and installed XFree86 4.01. I then attempted to install the Nvidia drivers GLX and the Nvidia_kernel module from SRPMs. When trying to install the RPMs that I generated from these SRPMs then the Nvidia_kernel module would not load complaining that it was built for 2.2.5 kernel version although I was running ver 2.2.16 when it was built. I then removed the RPM and attempted the following:
'rpm -Uvf Nvivia_kernel --nodeps' to remove the dependency on the kernel version number. Now when I boot up the kernel doesn't load the modules and complains that it doesn't know the command insmod.
After booting I am able to manually enter insmod and load modules. What have I broken? Also, how do I update my distribution so that when I build SRPMs they are for the kernel that I am running."
dude, i think i might know? (Score:1)
check/ensure the following:
i've found this stuff a touch confusing at times, and it seemd like its reasonably often screwed up.
the power of VI (Score:1)
mind you it works with mesa drivers u just dont get hw glx
AGPGart (Score:2)
I had similar problems w/ GeForce DDR (Score:2)
Headers? (Score:4)
Nvidias page [nvidia.com]
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