nvidia driver and multiple kernel

[shtik]

hi everyone,

on my pc i've installed two different kernels and need both. now i've got a problem with my nvidia drivers (ver 5336 as shellscript), everytime i change the kernel x won't start and i must install the drivers again, then when i reboot the same kernel, everything is fine as long as i don't try the other one ...
it seems like drivers can only be installed for one kernel, but that's annoying!

any ideas appreciated!
shtik

[SuperNu]

I thought that you could use multiple kernels with the Nvidia drivers. I haven't had any problems on my machine with multiple kernels and multiple installs of the Nvidia drivers. How are you installing the drivers? I usually run ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run -x to extract the files, cd to the directory where they get extracted, and run make install from there. I have read about RPMs being available for the different kernel revisions, but I am not sure where they are located right now.

--SN

[crackers]

They don't do RPMs any more - the binary is an installer itself. I haven't had any problems with using it to install/update (and re-build itself), but I usually only work with a single kernel. You could try looking on the NVidia forums and see if anyone's mentioned multiple kernels or ask about it yourself...

[shtik]

wow, i've got it! solution was to build only the kernel module, using the command "./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run -K", everything works fine now!

have a good day
shtik

[gonzalo76]

rpm.livna.org

See why you should use our nvidia video driver rpm packages instead of the nvidia installer. If you want to give it a try, you probably want to install the kernel-module-nvidia-$(uname -r) package. Be careful, only latest kernel is supported.

http://rpm.livna.org/livna-switcher.html

My current kernel version is 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl i686, it's the last one of the 2.4 series.

So, in my case, I had to download:

1. kernel-module-nvidia-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl-1.0.5336-0.lvn.3.1.i686.rpm
2. nvidia-glx-1.0.5336-0.lvn.3.1.i386.rpm

Then, I installed them with : rpm -ivh *.rpm

Also, you do not need to drop out of X to perform the installation.

The Livna Nvidia driver RPM comes with a small python script, which works as an extension to redhat-config-xfree86, and does all the editing of the XFree86 configuration file for you.

The only thing is that there are only 2 kernel versions available, 2.4...2174 and 2.4...2188 and they are only for Fedora Core 1.

Download link:
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/