MSI NX 6800 GT

[simonphoenix]

Please, i beg, no-one reply with RTFM. I have and i know it backwards and have yet to find the solution.

NVidia install for 6800GT on Fedora Core 6
**Intention** to play world of warcraft and secondlife.
PS. I love WINE - wow installed running at 3 fps "without gfx running at anything like a decent speed."

================================================== ==============
output from /VAR/LOG/NVIDIA-INSTALLER.LOG

creation time: Wed May 9 07:17:37 2007

option status:
license pre-accepted : false
update : false
force update : false
expert : false
uninstall : false
driver info : false
precompiled interfaces : true
no ncurses color : false
query latest version : false
OpenGL header files : true
no questions : false
silent : false
no recursion : false
no backup : false
kernel module only : false
sanity : false
add this kernel : false
no runlevel check : false
no network : false
no ABI note : false
no RPMs : false
no kernel module : false
force SELinux : default
no X server check : false
force tls : (not specified)
X install prefix : (not specified)
X library install path : (not specified)
X module install path : (not specified)
OpenGL install prefix : (not specified)
OpenGL install libdir : (not specified)
utility install prefix : (not specified)
utility install libdir : (not specified)
doc install prefix : (not specified)
kernel name : (not specified)
kernel include path : (not specified)
kernel source path : (not specified)
kernel output path : (not specified)
kernel install path : (not specified)
proc mount point : /proc
ui : (not specified)
tmpdir : /tmp
ftp mirror : ftp://download.nvidia.com
RPM file list : (not specified)

Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> Tagging shared libraries with chcon -t textrel_shlib_t.
-> License accepted.
-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would
you like the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for
your kernel from the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)?
(Answer: Yes)
-> No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp
site; this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel
interface for your kernel.
-> Performing CC sanity check with CC="cc".
-> Performing CC version check with CC="cc".

ERROR: Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running
kernel. Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for
your kernel and that they are properly configured; on Red Hat Linux
systems, for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' or
'kernel-devel' RPM installed. If you know the correct kernel source
files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the
'--kernel-source-path' command line option.

ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file
'/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions
on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux
driver download page at www.nvidia.com.
================================================== ==============

now i've installed kernel-devel kernel-source gcc cpp glibc.
it still doesnt work

to install I log off. ctrl alt F1 and run /sbin/init 3 to kill all x and GUIs.

can someone please send me a miricle command to get this fixed. I'm so flipping close to winning it's unreal!

Never managed this with redhat 9 either. i quit at this point and reverted to MS....I really wanna stay in a Tux ;-)

Help, i beg ya!!!

[Redeemed]

Wrong forum buddy. There is an nVidia Linux forum for stuff like this. You probably wont get much help with this thread being here. Maybe a mod can move it for you.

Evil_ghost and Grey_1 are both pros with Linux. Grey is currently on vacation for a bit with his wife- but Evil_ghost is around still. Maybe PM him with your problem if a mod doesn't move this to the right forum.

[evilghost]

Tell me what you've got in /usr/src by typing ls -la /usr/src at the command line.

When you type rpm -qa|grep -i kernel-devel what is returned?

[simonphoenix]

in response to the above :
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 5 21:26 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 May 5 18:56 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 5 21:26 kernels
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 5 17:15 lucene

in kernels is advises : /usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/

uname -a replies with :
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 #1 SMP Fri Apr 27 18:53:15 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

and
[root@localhost kernels]# rpm -qa|grep -i kernel-devel
kernel-devel-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6

Just incase you need it :
[root@localhost kernels]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 3
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 3398.599
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl cid xtpr
bogomips : 6799.29
clflush size : 64

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 3
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 3398.599
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl cid xtpr
bogomips : 6795.78
clflush size : 64

[evilghost]

Try:

./nvidia-installer.sh --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686

[simonphoenix]

sooooo close!!! it started to compile and went up to 100%!

over the moon i was.....

then

nvidia-installer.log reads
Woah - way to much to put here
file attached

[evilghost]

ls /usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/include/linux/*conf*.h

[simonphoenix]

[Phoenix@localhost ~]$ ls /usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/include/linux/*conf*.h
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/include/linux/autoconf.h
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/include/linux/configfs.h
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/include/linux/tipc_config.h
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/include/linux/zconf.h

the outputs are huge - do you require?

[evilghost]

ln -s /usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/include/linux/autoconf.h /usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/include/linux/config.h
./nvidia-installer.sh --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686

[simonphoenix]

[root@localhost ~]# ln -s /usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/include/linux/autoconf.h /usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/include/linux/config.h
ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/include/linux/config.h' to `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/include/linux/autoconf.h': File exists

want me to run at shell after killing X?

[evilghost]

stat /usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/include/linux/autoconf.h
stat /usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/include/linux/config.h

[simonphoenix]

[root@localhost ~]# stat /usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/include/linux/autoconf.h
File: `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/include/linux/autoconf.h'
Size: 76809 Blocks: 168 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: fd00h/64768d Inode: 19859071 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2007-05-10 21:30:36.000000000 +0100
Modify: 2007-04-28 01:03:07.000000000 +0100
Change: 2007-05-05 21:26:36.000000000 +0100
[root@localhost ~]# stat /usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/include/linux/config.h
File: `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/include/linux/config.h' -> `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/include/linux/autoconf.h'
Size: 64 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 symbolic link
Device: fd00h/64768d Inode: 19859799 Links: 1
Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2007-05-10 21:36:44.000000000 +0100
Modify: 2007-05-10 21:36:11.000000000 +0100
Change: 2007-05-10 21:36:11.000000000 +0100
[root@localhost ~]#

[simonphoenix]

also - plz remember - i'm 30 mins behind this forum - in the UK.

[evilghost]

Man, no idea at this point, better log a bug report over there in the NVIDIA Linux forums. You could try the below (note the trailing slash) but I doubt it makes a difference.

./nvidia-installer.sh --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/

[simonphoenix]

i feel less stupid now knowing it wasnt just me being thick, so thank you for all of your time.

also i ran the above command with trailing slash. produced the same i'm afraid. will get a bug report done and i'll drop you a pm with their response.

Can't say thank you enough.

[evilghost]

Sorry I couldn't be more useful, I really don't know Fedora's idiosyncrasies.

[simonphoenix]

The final command that ran purely in shell and WORKED!!!! was

sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9755-pkg1.run --accept-license --no-questions --kernel-name=`uname -r` --ui=none --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-i686/

Stupidly happy.

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