[NCLUG] Compiling of the Nvidia Video Drivers

[Mike W Jensen]

I did not have an nvidia card before...I had a voodoo 3 3000.  So there was no 
kernel modules for it.
On Sunday 23 February 2003 06:35 pm, Daniel Miles wrote:
> 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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Cheers,
Mike Jensen
http://www.spicylemons.com
jent at spicylemons.com