F8 & Freshrpms nvidia-x11-drv-96xx problem

[Richard Shaw]

Richard Shaw wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> 1.0.9639 is rather old, and isn't supported any longer.  If this is
>> the latest that freshrpms is giving out, then they're out of date, and
>> you need to go elsewhere.
>>
>> On 12/1/07, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  
>>> I just updated my FC6 server to F8 (replaced not upgraded) and 
>>> installed
>>> the nvidia-x11-drv-96xx driver from Freshrpms which has always worked
>>> before and is working right now on my desktop. Both systems are running
>>> the 64bit version of Fedora. Below is the make.log file from  DKMS:
>>>
>>>    
>>>> DKMS make.log for nvidia-1.0.9639-1 for kernel 2.6.23.1-49.fc8 
>>>> (x86_64)
>>>> Sat Dec  1 09:30:13 GMT-6 2007
>>>>
>>>> NVIDIA: calling KBUILD...
>>>> make CC=cc  KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 -C /lib/modules/2.6.23.1-49.fc8/build
>>>> SUBDIRS=/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build modules
>>>> test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf ||
>>>> (            \
>>>>         
>>>> echo;                                                           \
>>>>         echo "  ERROR: Kernel configuration is 
>>>> invalid.";               \
>>>>         echo "         include/linux/autoconf.h or
>>>> include/config/auto.conf are missing.";      \
>>>>         echo "         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel
>>>> src to fix it.";  \
>>>>         
>>>> echo;                                                           \
>>>>         /bin/false)
>>>> mkdir -p /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/.tmp_versions
>>>> rm -f /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/.tmp_versions/*
>>>> make -f scripts/Makefile.build 
>>>> obj=/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build
>>>> cp /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/nv-kernel.o
>>>> /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/nv-kernel.o
>>>> cp: cannot stat `/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/nv-kernel.o':
>>>> No such file or directory
>>>> make[3]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/nv-kernel.o] 
>>>> Error 1
>>>> make[2]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build] Error 2
>>>> NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
>>>> nvidia.ko failed to build!
>>>> make[1]: *** [module] Error 1
>>>> make: *** [module] Error 2
>>>>       
>>> I've never looked at this file before so I don't know what I'm supposed
>>> to see but the "cp" command looks funny as it appears to be trying to
>>> copy a file onto itself. The module obviously fails to build and X 
>>> fails
>>> to run.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Richard
>>>     
> Sorry, should have said I've got an old Geforce 4 MX card which is not 
> supported in the newer versions...
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
Replying to my own message here... As an experiment I installed the 
current nvidia driver from freshrpms and it sucessfully built. 
Unfortunately it doesn't support my graphics card.

It seems that the current version of the driver installs/builds 
differently from the legacy versions. It always worked perfectly in FC6 
so I'm wondering if something fundamental changed in F7 or 8? 
File/directory locations? Major Xorg version? Any ideas?

I have since installed the nvidia-graphics-legacy package from atrpms 
and it did "work" but things don't look quite right. In the login screen 
the "login" box and button size seemed out of proportion with the 
background. Is this a DPI issue?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Richard