Nvidia Drivers For Linux Mandrake 9.1

[welde]

I can't get nvidia drivers work Version: 1.0-4349 error wrong kernel.
I have nvidia tnt2 ultra + coppermine 700mhz does enyone know about installing those drivers???

[Ian_SUperfly]

Have you installed the kernel source?
If not, do that and it should work.

[Andy Mecham]

Please post a copy of /var/log/nvidia-installer.log.

--andy

[welde]

nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Thu Apr 3 06:22:58 2003

option status:
license pre-accepted : false
update : false
force update : false
expert : false
uninstall : false
driver info : false
no precompiled interface: false
no ncurses color : false
query latest driver ver : false
no OpenGL header files : false
no questions : false
silent : false
XFree86 install prefix : /usr/X11R6
OpenGL install prefix : /usr
Installer install prefix: /usr
kernel include path : (not specified)
kernel install path : (not specified)
proc mount point : /proc
ui : (not specified)
tmpdir : /tmp
ftp site : ftp://download.nvidia.com

Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> License accepted.
-> An NVIDIA_kernel rpm appears to already be installed on your system. As par
t of installing the new driver, this NVIDIA_kernel rpm will be uninstalled.
Are you sure you want to continue? ('no' will abort installation) (Answer: Y
es)
-> Removed NVIDIA_kernel.
-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li
ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f
rom 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.
ERROR: Unable to find the kernel header files for the currently running kernel.
Please make sure you have installed the kernel header 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 header
files are installed, you may specify the kernel include path with the
'--kernel-include-path' commandline 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.

[bwkaz]

Install Mandrake's kernel-source RPM.

[geezy]

I've done this and installed the header files but I still get the same error message as he, WELDE, got. Do I have to do something with this --kernel-include-path command? I'm not sure what that is or what I'm supposed to do.

Any suggestions would be appreciated along with step by step answers since I don't really know what I'm doing.

[vikool]

If it doesnt detect the headers, then you could try runnign the installer with --kernel-include-path=/usr/src/linux-x.x.x
make sure u put the directory of you current kernel.

also,
do a
rpm -qa | grep kernel
and make sure the kernel-source version matches the kernel version