Re: compiled nvidia module fails
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Olle Eriksson wrote:
| On Tuesday 30 November 2004 22.18, Tim Beauregard wrote:
|>I am unable to use the nvidia module compiled from nvidia-kernel-source
|>that is used with the nvidia-glx package. On boot-up, the computer
|>freezes when gdm starts. The error message I get in the logs is
|>Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module
|>This is using a 2.6.7 compiled kernel on Debian unstable system.
|>I have tried recompiling the kernel, as well as reinstalling the entire
|>system to no avail. The nv module works fine.
|>I cannot obtain any more log messages as the computer freezes and
|>requires reboot, losing any messages before they are written to the
|>hard drive.
|>I think the problem started after an apt-get update/upgrade, the
|>nvidia-glx package may have been upgrade.
|>Has anyone else had trouble like this? Any suggestions greatly
|>appreciated.
|
| I am not an expert here, but how about compiling nvidia module with
| 'module-assistant install nvidia'. (Make sure you have modele-assistant
| installed, maybe something else is needed too). Then that will download,
| compile and install the nvidia kernel module.
| I had to do 'module-assistant upgrade nvidia' after an apt-get upgrade.
| After that I had to remove and insert the new kernel module with 'rmmod
| nvidia' and 'modprobe nvidia'.
| Olle
This may be the solution I'm after, but don't know how to apply it to my
system; I'm not familiar with module-assistant. I compile the nvidia
module in conjunction with the kernel:
apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.7 nvidia-kernel-source
nvidia-kernel-common
tar xvjf kernel-source-2.6.7.bz2
tar xvzf nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz
ln -s kernel-source-2.6.7 linux
cd linux
(fakeroot make-kpkg clean)
make menuconfig
fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=20041201 kernel_image modules_image
dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.7-20041201.deb nvidia-kernel-2.6.7-20041201.deb
reboot
apt-get install nvidia-glx
(dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-glx)
Where in all this would I run module-assistant?
Thanks for your advice,
Tim
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