[ale] DISPLAY DRIVER problem

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Here are the results of "rpm -q kernel"

kernel-2.4.18-14
kernel-2.4.18-24.8.0



On Wednesday 05 February 2003 19:05, Jonathan Glass \(IBB\) wrote:
> Can I recommend downloading the source rpms, and rebuilding for your
> machine?  I had a really hard time getting these NVIDIA drivers to
> install on RH 8 boxes.  I finally downloaded the source rpms, and now I
> simply rebuild them after each kernel upgrade.  It doesn't take THAT
> much more time on my dual 2 GHz XEON boxes! :)
>
> Can you post the results of "rpm -q kernel"?
>
> Thanks & HTH
>
> Jonathan Glass
> Systems Support Specialist II
> Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience
> Georgia Institute of Technology
> 404.385.0127
>
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> Subject: [ale] DISPLAY DRIVER problem
>
>
> I have been having trouble installing display drivers on computer3.
>
> I have RedHat 8.0 on an AMD XP1600 (1.4Ghz). I updated the box to the
> latest
> kernel 2.4.18_18.8.0 using up2date. Next, I downloaded the RPM drivers
> from
> NVIDIA as seen below.
>
> When I tried to install them, I got the error below, and now I cannot
> get into
> X. Moreover when I try rpm -e the result is that the rpm is not found.
> RPM
> -qa results in the same.
>
> Any tips?
>
>
>
>
> [root at computer3 zetups]# rpm -Uvh
> NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.rh80up_2.4.18_18.8.0.i686.rpm
> NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.i386.rpm
> Preparing...                ###########################################
> [100%]
>    1:NVIDIA_kernel          ###########################################
> [ 50%]
> modprobe: Can't locate module nvidia
>
> Failed to install nvidia.o
>
> error: %post(NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.rh80up_2.4.18_18.8.0) scriptlet
> failed,
> exit status 1
>   --- WARNING!!
>       libglx.a
>       libGLcore.a
>       libGL.so.1.2
>  --- The above file(s) possibly belong to a conflicting MESA rpm,
>  --- or to a previous stale NVIDIA distribution.
>  --- They have been renamed to xxx.<originalFile>.RPMSAVE to
>  --- avoid conflicting with the files contained within this
>  --- package.
>  --- Please see the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS section of
>  --- /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for more details.
>    2:NVIDIA_GLX             ###########################################
> [100%]

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