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ianbigboy
19th January 2006, 12:28 AM
Has anyone had any luck getting the NVIDIA drivers to work with Core 5 beta. I've received errors the last 4 or 5 times I've tried to install, each time with a new kernel release. I'm currently running the latest the've got to offer, 2.6.15-1.1860_FC5 and using NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run. The error is "ERROR: Unable to build the NVIDIA kernel module."
hiberphoptik
19th January 2006, 12:50 AM
Has anyone had any luck getting the NVIDIA drivers to work with Core 5 beta. I've received errors the last 4 or 5 times I've tried to install, each time with a new kernel release. I'm currently running the latest the've got to offer, 2.6.15-1.1860_FC5 and using NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run. The error is "ERROR: Unable to build the NVIDIA kernel module."

sounds like you are missing kernel-devel

it is required to build the module for your current running kernel
ianbigboy
19th January 2006, 12:58 AM

Here is the output from rpm -qa |grep kernel |sort
kernel-2.6.15-1.1858_FC5
kernel-2.6.15-1.1860_FC5
kernel-devel-2.6.15-1.1858_FC5
kernel-devel-2.6.15-1.1860_FC5
hiberphoptik
19th January 2006, 01:09 AM
hmmm should work. unless nvidia has not updated things for that kernel??
IronWolve
19th January 2006, 06:23 AM
I havnt been able to install with the new kernel or a stock kernel, STRANGE. Says it cant load nvidia.no.
Even tried to use expert mode and manually path everything, so I know its there. Still same error.
Finalzone
19th January 2006, 07:25 AM
I wonder if it has something to do with the modular X.
bob
19th January 2006, 01:30 PM
(moved to FC5 - Dev)
Shuddertrix
19th January 2006, 09:01 PM
I can get it to install with the patch at NVnews, but it fails to work because GLcore is missing. Strange that GLcore is missing, I can't find it in the repositories though.
ghaefb
20th January 2006, 07:24 PM
I really don't know what's the deal with the latest Fedora Rawhide kernel and NVIDIA driver...

The first time I had issues with NVIDIA on rawhide I fixed it with --x-module-path=/usr/lib/xorg/modules passed to installer script. But now, with the latest updates that doesn't work either. I'm getting an error.

I kinda fixed the error with a patch from nvidia forums, but it still doesn't work.
There are a bunch of patches on nvidia forums, anyone knows which one to use... the one that actualy works ?