problem installing nv kernel for RH kernel 2.4.18_19 - Page 2

Hero_Shema · 02-03-03, 12:56 AM

To bwkaz:
ok, this is a little weired! I could swear that I did do the configuration for the config file for the kernel and tried to install the nvidia driver afterwords. Any way, so i did install the kernel source again. Then, I did a make clean nvidia.o, which worked fine. However, When i ran the 'make install' command, I got this:

lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o: kernel-module version mismatch
/lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o was compiled for kernel version 2.4.18-19.8.0custom
while this kernel is version 2.4.18-19.8.0.
/lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o: insmod nvidia failed
make: *** [package-install] Error 255

How come!!! The nvidia kernel module came from the source package NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm.

What's the deal?

Chalnoth · 02-03-03, 02:24 AM

bwkaz · 02-03-03, 07:41 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Hero_Shema
/lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o was compiled for kernel version 2.4.18-19.8.0custom
while this kernel is version 2.4.18-19.8.0.

Arrrgh... I don't like RedHat...

They changed the version info in their kernel-source package. Edit the /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-19.8.0/Makefile, change EXTRAVERSION=-19.8.0custom to EXTRAVERSION=-19.8.0, do a make mrproper oldconfig dep again, change to the NVIDIA_kernel directory, and do a make clean nvidia.o again. That one should work.

Hero_Shema · 02-03-03, 09:51 PM

To bwkaz:

rpm -ivh NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191 is already installed
file /lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/kernel/drivers/video
/nvidia.o from install of NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191 conflicts with file from package NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191

So I deleted nvidia.o from the lib/modules drivers/video directory. I'm still getting the same message. I couldn't cd into the old nVidia kernel directory to do a make clean nvidia.o as I deleted it accidently :-( SO All I did was deleting the nvidia.o file from the drivers/video directory. What should I do?

bwkaz · 02-04-03, 06:52 AM

rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep NVIDIA_kernel) will probably remove the package that's installed (but you'll want to do an rpm -qa | grep NVIDIA_kernel first, to make sure it isn't deleting anything else by accident -- everything the -qa prints will get removed). Then you can rpm -ivh the .src.rpm and cd back into the right directory.

02-03-03, 12:56 AM	#13
Hero_Shema Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 7	To bwkaz: ok, this is a little weired! I could swear that I did do the configuration for the config file for the kernel and tried to install the nvidia driver afterwords. Any way, so i did install the kernel source again. Then, I did a make clean nvidia.o, which worked fine. However, When i ran the 'make install' command, I got this: lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o: kernel-module version mismatch /lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o was compiled for kernel version 2.4.18-19.8.0custom while this kernel is version 2.4.18-19.8.0. /lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o: insmod nvidia failed make: *** [package-install] Error 255 How come!!! The nvidia kernel module came from the source package NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm. What's the deal? __________________ It is an old observation that the best writers sometimes discard the rules of rhetoric. When they do so, however, the reader will usually find in the sentence a compensating merit, attained at the cost of violation. Unless he is certain of doing as well, he will probably do best to follow the rules. William Strunk and E. B. White, The Elements of Style

02-03-03, 02:24 AM	#14
Chalnoth Registered User Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 1,293	-- __________________ "Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." - Richard P. Feynman Last edited by Chalnoth; 02-03-03 at 10:11 PM.

02-03-03, 09:51 PM	#16
Hero_Shema Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 7	To bwkaz: rpm -ivh NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] package NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191 is already installed file /lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/kernel/drivers/video /nvidia.o from install of NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191 conflicts with file from package NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191 So I deleted nvidia.o from the lib/modules drivers/video directory. I'm still getting the same message. I couldn't cd into the old nVidia kernel directory to do a make clean nvidia.o as I deleted it accidently :-( SO All I did was deleting the nvidia.o file from the drivers/video directory. What should I do? __________________ It is an old observation that the best writers sometimes discard the rules of rhetoric. When they do so, however, the reader will usually find in the sentence a compensating merit, attained at the cost of violation. Unless he is certain of doing as well, he will probably do best to follow the rules. William Strunk and E. B. White, The Elements of Style

02-04-03, 06:52 AM	#17
bwkaz Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 2,262	rpm -e $(rpm -qa \| grep NVIDIA_kernel) will probably remove the package that's installed (but you'll want to do an rpm -qa \| grep NVIDIA_kernel first, to make sure it isn't deleting anything else by accident -- everything the -qa prints will get removed). Then you can rpm -ivh the .src.rpm and cd back into the right directory. __________________ Registered Linux User #219692

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