I just installed 2008.1, and I can't get the nVidia drivers to
install. I installed the xorg, dkms, and kernel package and still
have the "nv" drivers in my xorg.conf.

What do you have to do to get the nvidia drivers installed on 2008.1?

On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:27:41 -0700, red floyd wrote:

> I just installed 2008.1, and I can't get the nVidia drivers to
> install. I installed the xorg, dkms, and kernel package and still
> have the "nv" drivers in my xorg.conf.
>
> What do you have to do to get the nvidia drivers installed on 2008.1?

You can't edit xorg.conf, and change the "nv" to "nvidia" ???


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red floyd wrote:
> I just installed 2008.1, and I can't get the nVidia drivers to
> install. I installed the xorg, dkms, and kernel package and still
> have the "nv" drivers in my xorg.conf.
>
> What do you have to do to get the nvidia drivers installed on 2008.1?

Open a terminal and enter:

su
(password)
XFdrake

A configuration window will open. Choose the graphic card.
You get a message a new driver is available and if you want
to use it. Say Yes here.

Now log out and log in again. If all is well the nvidia
driver wil start up. Sometimes you have to restart the
computer, but this cases are very rare.

Hope this helps...

John.

On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:27:41 -0400, red floyd <redfloyd@gmail.com> wrote:

> I just installed 2008.1, and I can't get the nVidia drivers to
> install. I installed the xorg, dkms, and kernel package and still
> have the "nv" drivers in my xorg.conf.

In order to compile kernel modules, the kernel-xxx-devel package must be
installed, that matches the kernel that's running.

For example, if the running kernel is kernel-desktop-2.6.24.5-2mnb, then the
kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.24.5-2mnb package is needed.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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David W. Hodgins wrote:

> On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:27:41 -0400, red floyd <redfloyd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just installed 2008.1, and I can't get the nVidia drivers to
>> install. I installed the xorg, dkms, and kernel package and still
>> have the "nv" drivers in my xorg.conf.
>
> In order to compile kernel modules, the kernel-xxx-devel package must be
> installed, that matches the kernel that's running.
>
> For example, if the running kernel is kernel-desktop-2.6.24.5-2mnb, then
> the kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.24.5-2mnb package is needed.
>
> Regards, Dave Hodgins
>
Dave, I have always found that it is difficult to nudge MCC to offer you the
choice of the nvidia drivers. It used to be that after setting resolution
etc, I only had to call up the Options or get to the summary screen, then
click Exit, and a message box would come up asking me if I wanted the
proprietary driver. Then, if I say yes, all the necessary packages
including dkms, were installed. With 2008.1, that doesn't seem to happen
as easily. After my last effort, removing the nVidia drivers to get gl.h
back, I couldn't make it happen with XFdrake or MCC. I had to do it
manually, but I knew what had been removed. As a last step, I edited
xorg.conf as Dan suggests.

And no, the program I wanted didn't justify that last effort.

Doug.

On Jul 1, 8:47*am, Dan C <youmustbejok...@lan.invalid> wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:27:41 -0700, red floyd wrote:
> > I just installed 2008.1, and I can't get the nVidia drivers to
> > install. *I installed the xorg, dkms, and kernel package and still
> > have the "nv" drivers in my xorg.conf.
>
> > What do you have to do to get the nvidia drivers installed on 2008.1?
>
> You can't edit xorg.conf, and change the "nv" to "nvidia" ???
>

Yeah, I can. But the drivers aren't being installed into the right
place for some reason.

red floyd wrote:
> But the drivers aren't being installed into the right
> place for some reason.

Use cd to go to /usr/src. ls -1 to see contents. You should
see something like,

2.6.24.7-tmb-desktop-2mdv/
2.6.24.7-tmb-desktop-3mdv/
linux-2.6.24.4-desktop-1mnb/
linux-2.6.24.5-desktop-1mnb/
linux-2.6.24.5-desktop-2mnb/
nvidia-current-173.14.09-1mdv2008.1/

The bottom line above is the nVidia installer from Mandriva.
The lines above that each are for devel headers for a particular
Mandriva kernel. You must have the headers for exactly the
kernel running, to compile and install drivers for it.

You may have an addition line, a symbolic link named
linux pointing to a directory for the devel headers. It
must point to the currently running kernel, for which
you will be compiling the drivers.

cd into the nvidia directory and, as root,
make module
make install

If you have the installer from nVidia's website, the
routine is the same except you cd into the nVidia
directory, as root use the command sh *run, and tell
the installer to make changes in xorg.conf etc when it
asks if it should do so.

Cheers!

jim b.


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