klee12 ha scritto:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to install the nvidia driver from Nvidia. After I ran then
> nvidia-installer, the installation bombed. I looked in the nvidia-
> installer.log and it said after some compilation messages

Two days ago I had the same log, it was a 2.4-based slackware.
Had to upgrade to a 2.6 kernel, then everything worked fine with nv drivers.

klee12 wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I tried to install the nvidia driver from Nvidia. After I ran then
> nvidia-installer, the installation bombed. I looked in the nvidia-
> installer.log and it said after some compilation messages
>
> ld -r -o nvidia.o nv-linux.o nv-kernel.o
> -> done.
> -> Kernel module compilation complete.
> ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.o'. This happens most
> frequently when this kernel module was built against the wrong
> or
> improperly configured kernel sources, with a version of gcc
> that differs
> from the one used to build the target kernel,

did you upgrade gcc? are you using swaret or slapt-get and had them do
updates for you? not sure what gcc slack 10.1 ships with, but you can do
`gcc -v` and figure out if its the default one of if its upgraded

> or if a driver
> such as
> rivafb/nvidiafb is present and prevents the NVIDIA kernel
> module from
> obtaining ownership of the NVIDIA graphics device(s).
>

is xwindows running? make sure that those modules aren't loaded, do `lsmod |
most` to see what is loaded

>
> I'm running Slackware 10.1 so possibly somethings are out of date. Any
> help greatly appreciated.

If you think its the out of date issue, try older versions of the nvidia
driver. they have them under archive just before you download it.

>
> Thanks in advance
>
> klee12


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On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:33:47 +0200, luca wrote:

> klee12 ha scritto:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I tried to install the nvidia driver from Nvidia. After I ran then
>> nvidia-installer, the installation bombed. I looked in the nvidia-
>> installer.log and it said after some compilation messages
>
> Two days ago I had the same log, it was a 2.4-based slackware. Had to
> upgrade to a 2.6 kernel, then everything worked fine with nv drivers.

If i recall correctly there is a legacy driver that you need from nvidia.
The most current will not work.

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On Sep 4, 9:16 am, haldir wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:33:47 +0200, luca wrote:
> > klee12 ha scritto:
> >> Hello,
>
> >> I tried to install the nvidia driver from Nvidia. After I ran then
> >> nvidia-installer, the installation bombed. I looked in the nvidia-
> >> installer.log and it said after some compilation messages
>
> > Two days ago I had the same log, it was a 2.4-based slackware. Had to
> > upgrade to a 2.6 kernel, then everything worked fine with nv drivers.
>
> If i recall correctly there is a legacy driver that you need from nvidia.
> The most current will not work.
>
> --
> Only trust pipe-smoking penguins.

Thanks to everyone for your replies. Alas, still having problems. I
thought I would try an older version of nvidia dirver, since the newer
kernel might break something. I downloaded an older package, and ran
the script. It compiled and told me everthing was OK. I changed the
driver from nv to nvidia, and did a few other things. Then I ran
xinit. I got a blank screen and everything locked up. I had to
hardware reboot and then I looked at the log
file. I showed that nvidia was computing the modelines and I got
....
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1024x768"
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
(==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
(==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL
....
Then a few lines later the log ended with the following

(II) Initializing extension GLX
(WW) Mouse1: No Device specified, looking for one...
(II) Mouse1: Setting Device option to "/dev/mouse"
(--) Mouse1: Device: "/dev/mouse"
(==) Mouse1: Protocol: "Auto"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Mouse1: Core Pointer
(==) Mouse1: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(==) Mouse1: Buttons: 3
(II) Keyboard "Keyboard1" handled by legacy driver
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE)
(--) Mouse1: PnP-detected protocol: "ImPS/2"
(II) Mouse1: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded

So what's going on. Was Nvidia finished or did it choke on something
later? Any help appreciated.


klee12