On Wednesday 03 Apr 2002 01:11, Nelson Bartley wrote: > Hi. > > I downloaded 2.4.18-8mdk kernel and source, installed them, downloaded > latest NVIDIA GLX and kernel drivers (in Src), recompilled nvidia GLX
By recompiled, I guess you installed the NVidia drivers from tarballs. I have found that, with the latest kernels, if you've used the kernel driver on another kernel, you can only compile the kernel driver sucessfully if you delete it (all the *.d and *.o files) and untar the tarball again. > and kernel drivers, installed the rpms, modified my XF86Config-4 to: > Load "glx" > and the driver from "nv" to "nvidia", just as I've done for many > kernels before, and I was completely unsucessful. When the computer > boots (or when X is restarted) the computer will lock solid, and no > errors message is dumped out to the XF log, nor the kernel log. > > Has anyone else experienced similar problems with the most recent > nvidia and kernel? > > Nelson Bartley > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. AMD Athlon XP 1600+, 512MB RAM. Registered Linux User 219434. Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk-win4lin, XFree86 4.2.0, patch level 9mdk. KDE: 2.2.2. Qt: 2.3.1. Up 1 day 7 hours 27 minutes.
