Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-multimedia (27 mails)

[Gerry Gavigan <gg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do you have the source code for the kernel downloaded on to your system? 
If not, I believe you might also find the suse nvidia page on their portal 
will help you through this.
 
On Sunday 30 January 2005 10:59, Bogi Mouritsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an NVIVIA Geforce 4000 (as far as I remember), and I have had
> trouble with it through several SuSE installations. However I have
> always managed to get it to work and it works just peachy when I need to
> use Windows.
>
> I just installed 9.2 and to no surprise YOU couldn't install the driver
> so I tried to install it using the .run file from nvidia-com. After
> going into "init 3" this is what I get:
> 1. My system does not find a precompiled kernel interface, so it tries
> to download one from nvidia.com. There is no one there either.
> 2. When trying to make a kernel interface I get an error stating that
> the kernel header file
> /lib/modules/2.6.8-24.11-default/build/include/linux/kernel.h was not
> found. This could be due to kernel-src not being installed, so I
> installed the additional package.
> 3. Tried again and after additional errors I found that kernel.h was in
> another directory.
> 4. ran "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run --kernel-source-path
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24/include".
> 5. Finally I get: ERROR: unable to build NVIDIA kernel module.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> :)Bogi