[TriLUG] can't get nvidia drivers to work

[Elliot Badham Peele]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Tanner Lovelace wrote:

> elliot peele wrote:
>
> > i am trying to upgrade to the newest nvidia driver and i am having a
> > couple of problems. i am running redhat linux 7.2 on a dell latitude 810C
> > with a 32mb gforce 2 go card. i got the rpm to install but it gives me
> > this:
> >
>
>
> How did you get the rpm to install?  Did you have to add --force
> or --nodeps?  If so, that is an indication of a problem that
> should be looked at.
>

rpm -ivh

> Well, that wouldn't solve it as the module is obviouly being found.
>
> Is your kernel a stock kernel? (I don't run redhat, so I can't
> tell just by looking at the version number.)  You might try downloading
> the .src.rpm or the tarball and compiling it yourself.  At the very
> least that might give you a better idea of the problem (assuming
> the compiler error messages make sense if it doesn't compile).
> In fact, compiling it yourself is probably a good idea, since the
> main reason for this kind of error is most likely to be a kernel
> mismatch of some sort (i.e. the module was compiled for a different
> kernel than the one you're trying to use it on).

i am using the redhat stock kernel from up2date. i haven't tried the srpm
yet because it was 2 in teh morning when i was trying to get this to work.

elliot