install nvidia driver problem
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Wed Apr 7 00:02:13 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 06:49, Ding Li wrote:
> Hi,gurus
>
> I got an error when I installed nvidia driver. Anybody has an idea
> what's going on and how to solve it? My system is rh 9.0.
>
> Here is the /var/log/nvidia-installer.log
>
> nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
> creation time: Tue Apr 6 14:23:40 2004
>
> option status:
> license pre-accepted : false
> update : false
> force update : false
> expert : false
> uninstall : false
> driver info : false
> no precompiled interface: false
> no ncurses color : false
> query latest driver ver : false
> OpenGL header files : false
> no questions : false
> silent : false
> XFree86 install prefix : /usr/X11R6
> OpenGL install prefix : /usr
> Installer install prefix: /usr
> kernel source path : /usr/src/linux
> kernel install path : (not specified)
> proc mount point : /proc
> ui : (not specified)
> tmpdir : /tmp
> ftp site : ftp://download.nvidia.com
>
> 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.
> -> Using the kernel source path '/usr/src/linux' as specified by the
> '--kernel-source-path' commandline option.
What happens if you *don't* specify the --kernel-source-path option?
> -> Kernel source path: '/usr/src/linux'
> -> Performing cc_version_check with CC="cc".
> ERROR: Unable to determine the NVIDIA kernel module filename.
> ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file
> '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find
> suggestions
> on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux
> driver download page at www.nvidia.com.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Ding
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