Re: Nvidia driver installation error

[Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ewi.tudelft.nl>]

Hi,

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Philippe Dhont   (Sea-ro) wrote:

>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install a nvidia driver on my system
>
> System is debian sarge with new kernel 2.6.8.1, XEON proc, sata disks
> and 1GB RAM.
> The video card is a nvidia quadro PCI-E series card.
>
> I downloaded the driver from nvidia,
> Started it with:
>
> Sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run
> --kernel-source-path=/home/software/kernel2.6.8.1/linux-2.6.8.1
>
>
> Then i get into the installation menu, i follow the menu options and the
> program is building a kernel module and right after that i get:
>
> Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko'.  This is most likely
> because the kernel module was built using the wrong kernel source files.
> Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your
> kernel; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the
> 'kernel-source' rpm installed.  If you know the correct kernel source
> files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the
> '--kernel-source-path' commandline option.
>
>
> I don't understand the error, i have a new kernel (uname -r gives
> 2.6.8.1) and the kernel source files are on the location i added
> (/home/software/kernel2.6.8.1/linux-2.6.8.1)
>
This is the problem I think:
    grep: /lib/modules/2.6.8.1/build/Makefile: No such file or directory
    grep: /lib/modules/2.6.8.1/build/Makefile: No such file or directory
    grep: /lib/modules/2.6.8.1/build/Makefile: No such file or directory
    grep: /lib/modules/2.6.8.1/build/Makefile: No such file or directory
    grep: /lib/modules/2.6.8.1/build/Makefile: No such file or directory
    grep: /lib/modules/2.6.8.1/build/Makefile: No such file or directory

your modules aren't correctly installed. Did you do a 'make
modules_install' after you compiled your kernel?

Greetz,
Sebas