Hello, Well I suppose it isn't SuSE we should blame but rather NVIDIA. Without the nvidia-sources how can SuSE give us a matching driver ? Cheers, Filip. Le Dimanche 18 Mars 2001 00:14, Stuart Powell a écrit :
Hello, Filip.
From the sounds of it, we would have to compile our kernel for SMP from the kernel sources that are installed, thereby creating a new source tree. This would then give us what we need to compile the Nvidia driver. However, by compiling and using our own kernel, we lose the 90day support that we paid for when buying the product. Is it so difficult to have the installation automatically put the correct source tree for the kernel on the machine ?
Bye for now, Stuart.
P.S. I know the SuSE guys are great, but I am starting to get somewhat testy over this issue since it has been raised now by more people than just myself, and no-one seems to have a good answer. Compiling a driver for one of the stock SuSE kernels should not be this difficult.
-----Original Message----- From: filip [mailto:vhf@skynet.be] Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 5:06 PM To: Stuart Powell; SuSE Mail List Cc: grimmer@suse.de; brosenb@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] New Nvidia drivers + 2.4.2
Hi,
True, and I had an answer from SuSE who are really nice guys (The problem is still to find the correct sources etc.....) : this is what they answered : You'll have to recompile the DRM modules. Don't use the DRM modules which come with the kernel sources, they don't match with the xf86 4.0.2 release. Before recompiling DRM, your kernel sources must be compiled and configured correctly. So we have to recompile 2.4.2 ( sources ? and how ?? ), then recompile DRM, and recompile NVidia drivers which in my opinion will then result with the same error "kernel-module version mismatch" message.
The solution might be to revert to 2.4.0, recompile DRM, compile NVidia and then upgrade to 2.4.2. What do you think???
Cheers, Filip.