NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111

Eric Tanguy eric.tanguy at physique.univ-nantes.fr
Fri Sep 17 04:42:18 UTC 2004


Le mar 14/09/2004 à 15:08, Beej a écrit :
> On 14 Sept 2004 Eric Tanguy Wrote:
> > I try to install NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1 all is fine except at the
> > end and the module can't be loaded.
> > When i run rpm -qa | grep kernel, i obtain :
> > kernel-sourcecode-2.6.8-1.521
> > kernel-utils-2.4-9.1.131
> > kernel-2.6.8-1.521
> > so the sourcecode is installed and correspond to the running kernel.
> 
> Okay this is good!
> 
> > WARNING: Your kernel was configured to include rivafb support as
> > a loadable kernel module.
> >
> > The rivafb driver conflicts with the NVIDIA driver; the
> > NVIDIA kernel module will still be built and installed,
> > but be aware that the NVIDIA driver will not be able to
> > function properly if the rivafb module is loaded!
> > -> Cleaning kernel module build directory.
> > executing: 'cd ./usr/src/nv; make clean'...
> 
> The rviafb driver is not a problem.  When I installed my drivers using this method i got the same warnings and just moved on.  No problems have been encountered, so far, on my machine.
> 
> > NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
> > -> done.
> > -> Kernel module compilation complete.
> > ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko'. This is most likely
> > because the kernel module was built using the wrong kernel source files


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