Richard Shaw wrote:
Lonni J Friedman wrote:
1.0.9639 is rather old, and isn't supported any longer. If this is
the latest that freshrpms is giving out, then they're out of date, and
you need to go elsewhere.
On 12/1/07, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I just updated my FC6 server to F8 (replaced not upgraded) and
installed
the nvidia-x11-drv-96xx driver from Freshrpms which has always worked
before and is working right now on my desktop. Both systems are running
the 64bit version of Fedora. Below is the make.log file from DKMS:
DKMS make.log for nvidia-1.0.9639-1 for kernel 2.6.23.1-49.fc8
(x86_64)
Sat Dec 1 09:30:13 GMT-6 2007
NVIDIA: calling KBUILD...
make CC=cc KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 -C /lib/modules/2.6.23.1-49.fc8/build
SUBDIRS=/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build modules
test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf ||
( \
echo; \
echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is
invalid."; \
echo " include/linux/autoconf.h or
include/config/auto.conf are missing."; \
echo " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel
src to fix it."; \
echo; \
/bin/false)
mkdir -p /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/.tmp_versions
rm -f /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/.tmp_versions/*
make -f scripts/Makefile.build
obj=/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build
cp /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/nv-kernel.o
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/nv-kernel.o
cp: cannot stat `/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/nv-kernel.o':
No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/nv-kernel.o]
Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build] Error 2
NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
nvidia.ko failed to build!
make[1]: *** [module] Error 1
make: *** [module] Error 2
I've never looked at this file before so I don't know what I'm supposed
to see but the "cp" command looks funny as it appears to be trying to
copy a file onto itself. The module obviously fails to build and X
fails
to run.
Thanks,
Richard
Sorry, should have said I've got an old Geforce 4 MX card which is not
supported in the newer versions...
Thanks,
Richard
Replying to my own message here... As an experiment I installed the
current nvidia driver from freshrpms and it sucessfully built.
Unfortunately it doesn't support my graphics card.
It seems that the current version of the driver installs/builds
differently from the legacy versions. It always worked perfectly in FC6
so I'm wondering if something fundamental changed in F7 or 8?
File/directory locations? Major Xorg version? Any ideas?
I have since installed the nvidia-graphics-legacy package from atrpms
and it did "work" but things don't look quite right. In the login screen
the "login" box and button size seemed out of proportion with the
background. Is this a DPI issue?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Richard
