Don't know if my original posting made it, so I'll try again with an update and an additional question. I've got SuSE 8.2 PRO, ran a YOU security upgrade (It downloaded and installed an athalon kernal, I've got an AMD K6-2, go figure) anyway on rebooting the system, X wouldn't boot. Trying a startX gave me an error about modules not matching. Did an init 3 and tried running Sax. Sax2 just hung when I tried to run it vanilla. Now for the Update. I remembered how to run SAX2 and use the open source nvidia driver. Now I can get into X. Decided to re-run the NVIDIA installer (sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg1.run) and it complained about compiler versions. OK, I tried an export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=yes, reran the installer and got the same error. I'd really like to get the NVIDIA driver with all the great acceleration stuff running. Any Ideas. Messages from NVIDIA compile and build
Building kernel module: executing: 'cd ./usr/src/nv; make nvidia.o SYSINCLUDE=/lib/modules/2.4.20-4G B/build/include'...
You appear to be compiling the NVIDIA kernel module with a compiler different from the one that was used to compile the running kernel. This may be perfectly fine, but there are cases where this can lead to unexpected behaviour and system crashes. If you know what you are doing and want to override this check, you can do so by setting IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH. In any other case, set the CC environment variable to the name of the compiler that was used to compile the kernel. Messages in warn.log when NVIDIA failed an 6 22:11:47 linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-195 Jan 6 22:11:48 linux kdm[2422]: Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly Jan 6 22:11:49 linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-195 Jan 6 22:11:50 linux kdm[2457]: IO Error in XOpenDisplay Jan 6 22:11:50 linux kdm[2422]: Display :0 cannot be opened Jan 6 22:11:51 linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-195 Jan 6 22:11:53 linux kdm[2461]: IO Error in XOpenDisplay Jan 6 22:11:53 linux kdm[2422]: Display :0 cannot be opened Jan 6 22:11:54 linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-195 Jan 6 22:11:55 linux kdm[2465]: IO Error in XOpenDisplay Jan 6 22:11:55 linux kdm[2422]: Display :0 cannot be opened Jan 6 22:11:55 linux kdm[2422]: Display :0 is being disabled (restarting too fast) Jan 6 22:12:30 linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-195