Re: Help! Unable to install Nvidia drivers for Kernel 2.4.20-13.8

[Matthew Saltzman <mjs ces clemson edu>]

On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, David Drew wrote:

> Hello folks,
>            I wonder if you can help me I'm trying to install the Nvidia
> drivers from source's:
>
> NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm
> NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.src.rpm
>
> When I execute "rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm" from
> root I get the following (full output at bottom of post):
>
> + install -m 0444 nvidia.o
> /var/tmp/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0//lib/modules/2.4.20-13.8/kernel/drivers/video
> install: cannot stat `nvidia.o': No such file or directory
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.42260 (%install)
>
> I'm a newbie when I installed on the previous kernel version I did not
> hit this issue.
>
> I can't find nvidia.o at all on the system I guess that it's not being
> created.
>
> Any help would be great cheers.
>
> Dave.

The latest NVIDIA drivers use a much more robust installer.  Get it from
www.nvidia.com.

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		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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