Mandrake 9.0 enterprise kernel & nvidia

[sharrea]

Has anyone got the nvidia drivers going with MDK9.0 enterprise kernel? At present I have a separate installation of MDK9.0 with standard kernel (then I can't access all my RAM) and the nvidia drivers work flawlessly there. But my enterprise kernel installation - no go!

X won't start.

Anyone else had any luck with this kernel?

[bwkaz]

I've never looked at the different Mandrake kernels, but the enterprise kernel should not be inherently different from any other kernel. The only difference is the configuration.

Is there a kernel-source package for the enterprise kernel? If so, install it and use the NVIDIA_kernel source.

[sharrea]

> Is there a kernel-source package for the enterprise kernel? If so, install it and use the NVIDIA_kernel source.

No, there is only the standard kernel-source package which is installed and I copied /boot/config-2.4.19-16mdkenterprise to /usr/src/linux-2.4.19-16mdk/.config.

I've spent a few days trying to install the drivers using the enterprise rpms, source rpms and the tar balls to no avail. Well at one stage I got X to start in BlackBox, FluxBox, Enlightenment, etc but could not start either KDE or Gnome. And no 3D graphics - trying to run UT2003-demo or tuxracer just gave segfaults.

I'll keep the separate installation (dual-boot) with the standard kernel installed for now. Bit of a bummer tho... :mad:

Thanks for the suggestion bwkaz.

BTW, I don't know why my posts show that I have a Riva TNT card! I have a GeForce2 GTS Pro 64MB.

[bwkaz]

Riva TNT isn't your card, it's your "number of posts". I don't have a GFFX, either. ;)

After you copied the file to .config, did you run make mrproper oldconfig dep? You should.