Re: RedHat 8.0 and TNT2 Ultra

"Christopher A. Williams" <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> · 16 Nov 2002 17:48:27 -0700

I just successfully upgraded to 2.4.18-18 while maintaining my NVidia video drivers installation. You need the source RPM files to to accomplish this. Here's how I did it:

    Upgrade to kernel 2.4.18-18 via RHN

Reconfigure XFree86 to use the vesa driver.

Reboot to the new kernel

switch to runlevel 3 (init 3)

uninstall the old NVidia drivers removing the GLX driver first! ( rpm -e NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123 and then rpm -e NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123)

Uninstall the old kernel (rpm -e kernel-2.4.18-17.8.0)

Delete the modules directory for the old kernel (rm -Rf /lib/modules/2.4.18-17.8.0)

Rebuild new NVidia rpms for the new kernel from source (rpmbuild -rebuild -target i686 NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.src.rpm NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.src.rpm)

Copy / move the new RPMs from /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i686 to a convenient place

install the new RPMs starting with the NVIDIA_kernel one

Reconfigure XFree86 back to use the nvidia driver

That's it. It's a pain to do but it works consistently for me.

Cheers,

Chris WIlliams

On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 14:04, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote:

On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 16:20, lovswr1 wrote:
> > If you haven't downloaded the drivers from nVidia's site, then that's
> > the first job. There's two files, a GLX file and a Kernel file. 
> > nVidia pre-compile the drivers, so you either need to match the kernel
> > you are running (probably 2.4.18), 

> do kernel revisions make the above untrue?  I have downloaded (via
> up2date) 2.14.18-8..(I am on -7 now)..my nvidia drivers work (tnt 2
> non-ultra) on my current kernel..however when i try to build then under
> -8 it tells me buildmaster is not installed - as root...I did get the -8
> src files as well.  are there specific nvidia files for each 2.4.18-X?

Going from 2.4.18-14 to 2.4.18-17 broke the nVidia drivers on my box.
I'm visiting my folks with the laptop so haven't had change to upgrade
the box with the nVidia card to 2.4.18-18 yet. I've not even got around
to reading the release notes for the kernel update yet.

I would expect it to break the nVidia drivers, since the modules are in
/lib/modules/kernelversion/. 

I personally have the tar files on my box to recompile with each new
kernel that I install- so have not looked at specific versions from
nVidia.

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