Hi Hazzmat, --- hazzmat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This afternoon I did a live dist-upgrade of kubuntu > from Dapper to Edgy, > sort of prompted by this question of howto install > Nvidia binaries. I > had been meaning to either switch back to Mandriva > or upgrade to Edgy > for quite a while--anyway doing that upgrade jogged > my memory about > what it takes to install the Nvidia binary. You will > almost certainly > need the *full* linux-source package installed. I > had kernel headers > installed after the upgrade was completed, but it > didn't appear to > satisfy the nvidia-installer. The nvidia-installer > complained about not > finding something like kernel.h until the full > sources package for > kernel 2.6.17 was both installed and configured--and > just saving the > default kernel configuration shipped by kubuntu > wouldn't do. I didn't > get past this missing ____.h file problem until I > did a make of the > kernel and modules. Then nvidia-installer installed > and I was able to > use the old xorg.conf I had carried over from > Dapper. Yup, Kubuntu Edgy is what I'm running. What a palava getting the Nvidia drivers to work - piss of piss under Slackware, but anyway, its a learning experience :-) You were right about needing to install the full source package, which I did, using Adept. However you have to go in and manually unbzip/untar it. Here's what happened after: 1) Boot into single-user mode (Kubuntu calls it "Recovery Mode") 2) Manually back up xorg.conf 3) Run Nvidia .run file (1.0-9755) 4) Whilst still in single-uuser, run startx. Runs up very nicely does the glxgears, glxinfo reports the proper Nvidia module, extensions, etc. 5) Attempt to reboot system into normal mode. System drops into text mode login. 6) Startx reports: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has the version 1.0-7184, but this X module has the version 1.0-9755. Where the hell has the ancient module come from? 7) Boot into Recovery Mode *again* 8) Uninstall 9755 9) Use find to seek out and destroy many dodgy looking files whose names contained the word "nvidia". 10) At this point there is still an nvidia module in RAM, according to lsmod, so re-boot into Recovery Mode again. 11) Install 9755 again 12) Check startx - runs fine 13) Reboot into Normal mode - Woo-hoo! Everything sorted. Hope someone finds this useful! TTFN! Paul ~~~~~ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
