Re: X/Nvidia trouble after upgrade

[Joshua Schmidlkofer <menion asylumwear com>]

First off you are using the NVidia drivers from NVIDIA, so you [if you
haven't] you will need to reinstall the NVidia X drivers.  Second, you
will have to make sure that you have installed the kernel-sources rpm,
this should be the correct sources for your running RH kernel. [if you
haven't] then in the NVidia kernel module dir, run a 'make clean', then
a 'make'.   These are the steps I took when I upgraded from 7.3 to 8.0,
and i had no problems.

Actually - I use an XFS kernel, and it's custom, so I ended up
rebuilding my kernel, then remaking the NVidia driver.   It pencil's out
about the same, but if you still have problems you might look in
/usr/src/linux/Makefile for what CC Redhat is using.   They used to use
kgcc [from the RPM compat-gcc], to build the kernel.  If they still do
you will need to update the NVidia drivers Makefile.  -OR- pay attention
because the NVIDIA drivers may be being compiled with 'kgcc', and the
real kernel is built w/ gcc, so in that case you would need to tell the
NVidia drivers to use 'gcc' instead of 'kgcc'.


I would like to give you a much more precise answer, but I have been
using XFS w/ my own kernels for so long, I don't remember anymore.

js


On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 14:15, Nick Wilson wrote:
> HI all, 
> 
> Just upgraded from 7.3 to 8.0 
> X won't start so I went and re 'make'ed the nvidia kernel.
> 
> It's telling me that the nvidia kernel was made with gcc2 compiler but
> the kernel I'm running was made with version 3.
> 
> Any clues as to what to do?
> 
> Many thanks....
> -- 
> Nick Wilson     //  www.tioka.com
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