[NCLUG] Compiling of the Nvidia Video Drivers

[Daniel Miles]

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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