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Tamer wrote:

Hi again!
Thank you very much for helping me. You were really a great support. I
got the NVIDIA driver to run after I compiled the latest kernel from
scratch up again. But the problem is that I can?t install the NVIDIA
driver when I boot the new kernel, only the previous default kernel
allows me to install the NVIDIA driver. The problem is actually solved
and not solved. Not solved that if I run the new compiled kernel I won?t
be able to run XWindows with the new driver.

Tamer

Since the sequence you relate above seems to suggest that you configured and
compiled and then built the nvidia module and then when you reboot in the
new kernel you can't get the driver to load, I'm going to ask.

Did you wait until you were rebooted and running the new kernel before you
built the nvidia driver. I'm sure there is another way to do it, like
running mkinitrd against a kernel other than the one running by pointing to
the proper /lib/modules/(kernel directory). The procedure I use has always
required me to install and configure the sources, compile the kernel and
then reboot into the new kernel and *then* let the nvidia driver build
against the running kernel. Since you state you can only use it with your
old kernel, I suspect that is what was running when nvidia was built and
installed.

If one is not interested in changing kernels, and simply building the nvidia
driver, simply installing the kernel sources, (I believe on the 2.4 series
kernels, make mrproper, doing a make menuconfig or xconfig or what ever is
one's preferred method of configuring, and then doing a make dep is
sufficient) prior to the nvidia .run script since the target kernel is
already running.

I've not had to make any modifications to any of my module loader scripts
such as /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf or even with a 2.6
series, /etc/modules.preload or what have you. After making the proper
modifications to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and rebooting it comes up
automagically. Other systems and configurations may require manual loading
of it or the individual may simply desire to make adjustments to only load
it when they want it.

I'm going to have to try SuSe one of these days before I get too old. I
didn't get into Linux until about 1996 and have confined myself to Debian,
Slack, RH, few mini distributions and a couple of live CD distros like
Knoppix, after I'd arrived alive at 55.

I humorously refer to myself on occasion as, "The World's Oldest *Living*
Linux User. ;-)

Regards,

CC

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