Alex Makhlin wrote: > > Trapper wrote: >> Alex Makhlin wrote: >>> Has anyone ran into this error "Unable to build NVIDIA kernel module" >>> while installing the latest Nvidia drivers? Anyone know the fix? >>> >> I don't know if it's the same circumstances but I do know I had to do >> >> this prior to installing the drivers from livna. >> >> yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers glibc-headers >> >> Trapper >> > I have those installed already and am still getting the same error. The > last time that I installed an Nvidia driver on this laptop I used an RPM > file but can't remember which one it was. rrrrrr. This time I am trying > to install the driver from Nvidia "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.08-pkg1.run" and > am using Fedora 9 KDE 4.1. Anyone else have any suggestions? > > The nvidia script won't work with an X session running. You have to get to run level 3 and run directly from the command line console screen. It is getting harder and harder to get out of gui to get a plain text console. Probably easiest for you is to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and put a blank followed by a 3 on the line with the kernel description. For example kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686 ro root=LABEL=/ 3 vga=791 early-login Robert McBroom -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Unable-to-build-NVIDIA-kernel-module-tp19804695p19860606.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
