***New NVIDIA Drivers Bug fix*** (linux)
by Tim Newell · in General Discussion · 03/23/2002 (3:09 pm) · 7 replies
If you installed the newest nvidia drivers under linux and after rebooting find that they are no longer working than this is due to an easily fixable bug in the drivers install.
To fix it you need to look in these 3 files (/etc/conf.modules, /etc/modules.conf(this is the only one that actually exists on mandrake 8.2), /etc/modutils/alias) and find the line:
alias /dev/nvidia/* NVdriver
change it to:
alias /dev/nvidia* NVdriver
(you'll need to be root to edit this file)
save, exit, and reboot. Now you should be able to get into xwindows again fine.
-Tim aka Spock
To fix it you need to look in these 3 files (/etc/conf.modules, /etc/modules.conf(this is the only one that actually exists on mandrake 8.2), /etc/modutils/alias) and find the line:
alias /dev/nvidia/* NVdriver
change it to:
alias /dev/nvidia* NVdriver
(you'll need to be root to edit this file)
save, exit, and reboot. Now you should be able to get into xwindows again fine.
-Tim aka Spock
#2
03/23/2002 (6:38 pm)
Must just be a bug in the tar ball them.
#3
03/23/2002 (9:44 pm)
I seriously recommend to use the src rpms if you're using redhat or mandrake (or any other rpm-centric distro). Use the tarball with Debian and Slack. It will save you a lot of trouble.
#4
03/24/2002 (2:02 am)
There were no rpms available for Mandrake 8.2 or otherwise I would have.
#5
What you have to do is get NVIDIA_kernel.xxxx.src.rpm and NVIDIA_GLX.xxxx.src.rpm.
Then as root you do:
rpm --rebuild *.src.rpm
this will create two rpm packages somewhere in
/usr/src/Mandrake/i586/RPMS (or something like this
then you just install those packages. It's all in the readme that's on NVidia's Linux drivers website.
Yeah, so you have to get the src rpms because the 8.2 packages haven't been made for this release (since it came out a couple days before Mandrake 8.2 did).
Does this make sense?
03/24/2002 (10:09 am)
yeah, I know. I think you are a little confused by what I saidWhat you have to do is get NVIDIA_kernel.xxxx.src.rpm and NVIDIA_GLX.xxxx.src.rpm.
Then as root you do:
rpm --rebuild *.src.rpm
this will create two rpm packages somewhere in
/usr/src/Mandrake/i586/RPMS (or something like this
then you just install those packages. It's all in the readme that's on NVidia's Linux drivers website.
Yeah, so you have to get the src rpms because the 8.2 packages haven't been made for this release (since it came out a couple days before Mandrake 8.2 did).
Does this make sense?
#6
-Tim aka Spock
03/24/2002 (11:10 am)
Aha. I was wondering if you were talking about something like that but I did not know that was possible. Thanks for letting me know.-Tim aka Spock
#7
03/24/2002 (3:32 pm)
Hehe, no problem. Let me know how it turns out for you. 
Torque Owner Yacine Salmi
Then again, I used the source rpm.