[NCLUG] Compiling of the Nvidia Video Drivers

Daniel Miles dmiles at holly.colostate.edu
Sun Feb 23 18:34:15 MST 2003


If you've had an Nvidia card in the system before, you need to make
clean before you make install when you're compiling the kernel module,
that's just about the only help I can offer you, I'm sorry.

On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 18:02, Mike W Jensen wrote:
> Hi there.  I hate to bother you but I have found little on this error, and
> thought I would give this a shot.  I recently purchased a Nvidia Geforce4 AGP
> MX 440se.  The reason being my old agp went out and I have a dual head so I
> figured that this would be a good replacemnt (they also had only nvidia at
> best buy).  When I try to compile using the tar and the make install I get
> multiple errors.  I even tryed to modifie the Makefile to make it work.  On
> the rpm I get "scriptlet error"  I tryed this in 2.4.18-24 and it gave me
> that error.  The rpm is made for 2.4.18-18 and someone thought that might be
> the problem but it gave me the same error when I went into that kernel.  I am
> using rh8.0 and am at a compleat loss on what to do.  In additon on the
> scriptlet error in 2.4.18-18 it gave me a message that went something like
> "only the developer can help you" LOL.  Thank you for any input if there is
> any, I might have to just call nvidia tommarow and see if they will help a
> poor linux fool.
> 
> p.s. dose anyone know if anyone has made third party open source drivers?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mike Jensen
> http://www.spicylemons.com
> jent at spicylemons.com
> 
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