Personally it's better to run the drivers from NVidia.com with the full
kernel-source (not stripped which Rick probably has, but will still work
for the most part) and compile it, then avoid urpmi'ing the drivers from
the CDs or online sources. I think the performance is much better
anyway.
Paul
On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 23:48 -0600, Dennis Myers wrote:
> On Friday 24 February 2006 10:53 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> > On Friday 24 February 2006 08:44 pm, Rick Kunath wrote:
> > > Dennis Myers wrote:
> > > > I have now installed the 2.6.12-17 kernel and
> > > >
> > > >kernel source and nvidia-dkms packages and still get the message about
> > > >nvidia.ko file not found maybe my kernel source is not correct, etc.
> > >
> > > What size was the kernel-source file?
> > >
> > > I had the same issue not too long ago due to an oddball kernel-source
> > > file (first time on many years, it was actually a mis-named file on one
> > > mirror.) The file should be about 49 megs in size. I've done hundreds of
> > > kernel upgrades prior to that, though with no trouble.
> > >
> > > Also, do a uname -a from a konsole and make sure you're really running
> > > the kernel you think you are.
> > >
> > > How exactly did you install the kernel and kernel-source?
> > >
> > > Let us know what you find.
> > >
> > > Rick Kunath
> >
> > My kernel-source file is 11.8M,  not good huh? I will try a different
> > mirror. Thanks for all the help so far folks.
> That was not it. Finally gave up and loaded the dkms-nvidia package 7676 from 
> the DVD and redownloaded the nvidia 7676 driver and have  ut2004 running 
> again.  Not at all sure what the problem was with the 8178 packages.  So I 
> will wait and try again when a 9xxx nvidia driver comes out. : )

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