On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, J. Alan Atherton suggested we build a large wooden badger: > This talk of kernel compilation has got me thinking that I now have 2 > newly compiled kernels that I haven't used. They were compiled by > up2date, and I'm wondering if that's part of the problem. They're > available in my grub booter, and when I boot to them the Xserver can't > start. Something about the Nvidia driver finding a screen, but it > doesn't support the available configuration. Do I need to re-compile > the nvidia drivers every time I re-compile the kernel? Note that this > is not the RH default nv driver, but the 3d-accelerated nvidia driver. > -- > -J. Alan Atherton > "Just my 10 bits"
Every new kernel version will require recompiling the NVidia drivers, or downloading new ones. The easiest way to do it is to download the source (either the srpms or just the source), and to recompile each time. Neither is very difficult. To use the srpms, you'd do something like this: rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.src.rpm rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/NVIDIA_*-1.0-4191.i386.rpm To use the tar.gz files, you'd do something like this: tar xzf NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.tar.gz tar xzf NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.tar.gz cd NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191 make ; make install cd ../NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191 make ; make install Now, X should start fine with the accelerated drivers. It might be helpful to start the new kernel with the machine in initlevel 3, then run "init 5" once you've compiled and installed the new drivers. Good luck. Hope this helps. Frank --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK CSR Computer Science Department Brigham Young University [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
