>> most likely reason for this that you have not used 2.6 patch from >> www.minion.de (that even provides you 2.6-compatible installer). >> >> modversions no more exsts in 2.6 > Sorry, no way out with that step. > I downloaded 'NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg#.tar.gz' and open it, and got: > two new files, .manifest and *nvidia-installer. Then I used > 'NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run' with ./N.....run --extract-only. > Then I changed the .manifest and *nvidia-installer to the new ones. > When I did ./.nvidia-installer I got: > ERROR: Unable to build the NVIDIA kernel module.
I fails to see these directions on www.minion.de. Quoting README: 1) download: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg0.run (nvidia) NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4496-2.6.diff (minion.de) 2) install the kernel module (as root): # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg0.run --extract-only # cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg0 # cd usr/src/nv # patch -p1 < ../../../../NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4496-2.6.diff # ln -s Makefile.kbuild Makefile # make install anyway - it works. It works for may people. Actually so far it worked for everyone :) for this reason and because it is extremly hard to answer off web archive I leave it as home work for interested parties. With extra link about how to compile external modules under 2.6: http://lwn.net/Articles/21823/ -andrey Oh, and readme does not end on quoted lines of course :)
