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Steven Pasternak

2 Oct 2004 2 Oct '04

17:56

I just compiled Kernel 2.6.8.1 (Vanilla) and fixed subfs. I can live without 'splash', but not without X/KDE or the NVIDIA driver. The NVIDIA Driver won't recompile (I use 1.0-6111); saying it has no precompiled kernel interface. KDM won't even start. I use SuSE 9.1. Any ideas?

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Catimimi

2 Oct 2 Oct

18:11

New subject: [SLE] Kernel 2.6.8.1 (Vanilla) Won't Work With X/KDE or NVIDIA

Steven Pasternak a écrit :

I just compiled Kernel 2.6.8.1 (Vanilla) and fixed subfs. I can live without 'splash', but not without X/KDE or the NVIDIA driver. The NVIDIA Driver won't recompile (I use 1.0-6111); saying it has no precompiled kernel interface. KDM won't even start. I use SuSE 9.1. Any ideas?

Please, tell us a little more about the errors. I use SuSe 9.1 Pro, I compile quite all the vanilla kernels, 2.6.8.1 worked fine, the Nvidia-6111 driver builds OK with this kernel. There are problems with the Nvidia driver for kernel >= 2.6.9-rc2-bk3 I gave a patch for that in the nvidia forum but can share it here if requested. If you like it, I've got the splash working with all the vanilla kernels. I don't keep any archive but I can share the bootsplash patch for kernel-2.6.9-rc3-bk1. Michel

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Osho GG

18:40

New subject: [SLE] Kernel 2.6.8.1 (Vanilla) Won't Work With X/KDE or NVIDIA

On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 13:56:01 -0400, Steven Pasternak wrote:

I just compiled Kernel 2.6.8.1 (Vanilla) and fixed subfs. I can live without 'splash', but not without X/KDE or the NVIDIA driver. The NVIDIA Driver won't recompile (I use 1.0-6111); saying it has no precompiled kernel interface. KDM won't even start. I use SuSE 9.1. Any ideas?

I had similar experience with KDM when I compiled my own kernel 2.6.8.1. KDE would consistently crash after boot. I switched to XDM (plain but works) and XDM worked fine. In /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, change to xdm as follows: DISPLAYMANAGER="xdm" YMMV. Osho

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Osho GG

18:41

New subject: [SLE] Kernel 2.6.8.1 (Vanilla) Won't Work With X/KDE or NVIDIA

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 11:40:45 -0700, Osho GG wrote:

On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 13:56:01 -0400, Steven Pasternak wrote:

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I just compiled Kernel 2.6.8.1 (Vanilla) and fixed subfs. I can live without 'splash', but not without X/KDE or the NVIDIA driver. The NVIDIA Driver won't recompile (I use 1.0-6111); saying it has no precompiled kernel interface. KDM won't even start. I use SuSE 9.1. Any ideas?

I had similar experience with KDM when I compiled my own kernel 2.6.8.1. KDE would consistently crash after boot. I switched to XDM

Oops, I meant KDM would consistently crash after boot. I could launch KDE fine from XDM and KDE worked fine.

(plain but works) and XDM worked fine.

In /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, change to xdm as follows:

DISPLAYMANAGER="xdm"

YMMV. Osho

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Jonathan Brooks

21:14

New subject: [SLE] Kernel 2.6.8.1 (Vanilla) Won't Work With X/KDE or NVIDIA

Hi, I take it that you have followed the SuSE-specific instructions for compiling the Nvidia drivers under 2.6.X kernels? Before you install the nvidia drivers, you should cd /usr/src/'linux' <- or whatever your kernel is called, then type make cloneconfig make prepare-all then you should run the nvidia-installer with the path to the kernel source specified as an argument, I think it is something like --kernel-src-path=/usr/src/'linux', but check on the nvidia's website there's a link to SuSE related instructions Hope this helps, Jon. ---- Jonathan Brooks (Ph.D.) Research Assistant Pain Group, Department of Human Anatomy and Genetics University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QX Tel: +44 (0)1865 282675 Fax: +44 (0)1865 272183 -----Original Message----- From: Steven Pasternak [mailto:stevenp500@bellsouth.net] Sent: 02 October 2004 18:56 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Kernel 2.6.8.1 (Vanilla) Won't Work With X/KDE or NVIDIA I just compiled Kernel 2.6.8.1 (Vanilla) and fixed subfs. I can live without 'splash', but not without X/KDE or the NVIDIA driver. The NVIDIA Driver won't recompile (I use 1.0-6111); saying it has no precompiled kernel interface. KDM won't even start. I use SuSE 9.1. Any ideas? -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com

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