Quoting Keith Roberts <lists@kar.eclipse.co.uk>:
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Then cd'ed to NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336/usr/src/nv and did:
make install depmod -a
And that was it compiled and installed ok.
FYI, if you use the nvidia-installer WITHOUT running the last 2 commands, the GLX module will not be installed. This will leave you with a partly completed unstable installation, and cause weird control characters to be written to the VDU, and hang your system.
I don't quite understand why the nvidia installer does not finish the job properly.
That is *VERY* strange. I've used the NVIDIA installer on a number of systems, even x86_64, and have never witnessed this behavior. For starters, the GLX driver is *NOT* a kernel driver. depmod -a will not affect it. Something else is going on in your system.