Re: Nvidia drivers and 2.6.x kernel

[Josh McKinney <forming@charter.net>]

On approximately Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:24:10PM -0600, Paul Misner wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 January 2004 06:05 pm, Christian Unger wrote:
> > About module-init-tools ... dunno ... never heard of it, I'm on Slackware
> > 9.1 so ... dunno ... Not sure. But like you say, if i could not initalize
> > modules the nvidia module should be the least of my worries, plus
> > everything loads in 2.4.22
> 
> The 2.6 kernel needs new tools to load the kernel modules, because they have a 
> different format (not just a different extension with .ko).  
> module-init-tools provides those necessary upgrades, and also aids in 
> creating /etc/modprobe.conf, which is used instead of /etc/modules.conf under 
> the 2.6 kernels for loading modules on startup.  If you don't have 
> module-init-tools, then I'm not surprised you are having problems.  You 
> probably need an updated mkinitrd as well if you are using an initrd on 
> system startup.
> 
> They should be at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules/
> 
> You probably want to read a document that summarized the changes that happened 
> in 2.6, which is where the link above was located.  It is 
> http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt
> 
> Not knowing much about Slackware, I couldn't give you much help about where 
> the best place to get your tools from might be, except for the source above.
> 
> > > What messages do you get about what is going wrong?  What happens when
> > > you so a modprobe nvidia?  What does your log file from XFree show?
> >
> > on make install i get:
> > FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.1/kernel/drivers/video/
> > nvidia.ko): Invalid module format
> >
> > That's the same thing that modprobe nvidia gets.
> > I'll check the nv thing out.
> >

My guess is you need to have a "built" kernel tree.  Basically just
build the kernel, install, reboot, then without touching the kernel
tree you built rebuild the nvidia driver.  I hope that makes sense.

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