Trouble with kernel rebuild.

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Tue Jan 14 15:12:20 EST 2003


The Nvidia has 2 rpm's you need, a kernel rpm and a GLX rpm and it is
very specific as far as the distro/kernel. Go to nvidia.com and check
them out
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 15:01, shipdadip wrote:
> I think I addeed support for loadable kernel modules.  And I just looked and
> I didn't install the Nvidia drivers RPM, because when I go to install the
> Nvidia RPM kernel I get errors about it not finding some stuff, I'll have to
> reboot to tell u the exact errors.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Bartram" <bradbartram at ccsisp.com>
> To: <nflug at nflug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 1:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Trouble with kernel rebuild.
> 
> 
> > If you built your kernel from source, make sure that you have support
> added
> > for loadable kernel modules.  The nvidia driver is a module which can't be
> > compiled as a static part of a monolithic kernel.  To test this, you can
> > issue the command insmod <nv or nvidia I forget which>, this will insert
> the
> > module into the running kernel.  Same goes for your network card.
> >
> > It's real possible to set it in the make config to be a lkm and then if
> you
> > are expecting it to be static in your kernel you don't run your make
> > modconfig.
> >
> > Hope this rambling was helpful.
> >
> > brad
> >
> > On Tuesday 14 January 2003 12:11 pm, shipdadip wrote:
> > > Hi guys.  I have Slackware 8.1 installed, but the default kernel doesn't
> > > support SBLive cards so I had to rebuild the kernel.  I downloaded the
> > > 2.4.20 kernel.  I did a rebuild following Leo Laporte's guide :)
> > > http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/linux/story/0,24330,2433297,00.html
> So
> > > I rebuilt  the kernel and included SBLive support compiled right in not
> as
> > > a module (cuz I'm not sure how to load modules yet).  I also compiled in
> > > support for my NIC, a 3Com 3c905.  When i booted to the kernel Xwindows
> > > wouldn't start so I rebuilt the Nvidia drivers and reinsatlled the RPM's
> > > but still no go.  Also on boot it says it didn't start my NIC, or didn't
> > > find my NIC.  Can anyone help?  My NIC worked before I upgraded.  Any
> have
> > > any suggestions?
> >
> >
> 





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