Thanks everybody for your inputs. I took good notes of it. So, in order to proceed to the installation of the Nvidia drivers, I first wanted to upgrade the kernel to 2.4.18-18.8.0. Via RHN, I downloaded and installed the rpm. When I type in "rpm -qa kernel" (or something like that), I see the 3 rpms, i.e., 2.4.18-14, 2.4.18-17.8.0 and 2.4.18-18.8.0. However, when I boot, I still boot in 2.4.18-14 only. I must mentioned at this point that I decided not to use GRUB nor LILO but always boot from a diskette (this is the family pc and I don't want the others to be bothered by having to chose). So, I did my homeworks and read on the thing to find out that I have to do another boot diskette to boot with the latest kernel (well, I think it is what I need to do). I used the "mkbootdisk 2.4.18-18.8.0" command, made the diskette, and reboot. All this to get the message "boot failed" (while vmlinuz is running). Any suggestions or idea of what I did wrong? Thanks again for your help. Sylvain. ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher A. Williams To: psyche-list@redhat.com Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 7:48 PM Subject: Re: RedHat 8.0 and TNT2 Ultra 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. ===================================="If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence,try orderin' someone else's dog around."--Cowboy Wisdom -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
