NVIDIA Drivers and Test 3

Aaron Hughes hughesac at clarkson.edu
Thu Apr 29 14:05:40 UTC 2004


Jerone Young wrote:
> The one on nvidia's website will not compile with 2.6.
> You have to get modified installer from here:
> 
> http://www.minion.de/
> 
> 
> It works great for me...some stability issues, but
> Unreal 2k4 runs smoothly.
> 
> --- jason perlow <perlow at linux-mag.com> wrote:
> 
>>Has anyone had any success installing the NVIDIA
>>drivers on a AMD 64 
>>system? I'm talking about NVIDIA's optimized
>>drivers, not the ones built 
>>into Xorg.
>>
>>When I install the drivers, I get this error:
>>
>>Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
>>-> License accepted.
>>-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to
>>match your kernel; would 
>>you li
>>   ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel
>>interface for your 
>>kernel f
>>   rom the NVIDIA ftp site
>>(ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes)
>>-> No matching precompiled kernel interface was
>>found on the NVIDIA ftp 
>>site;
>>   this means that the installer will need to
>>compile a kernel interface for
>>   your kernel.
>>ERROR: The kernel header file
>>      
>>
> 
> '/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.327smp/build/include/linux/modversions.h'
> 
>>does not
>>       exist.  The most likely reason for this is
>>that the kernel header 
>>files
>>       in
>>'/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.327smp/build/include' have not
>>been
>>       configured.
>>
>>Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>>Jason Perlow
>>Linux Magazine
>>http://www.linux-mag.com
>>perlow at linux-mag.com
>>
>>
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What sort of stability issues are you having?






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