Re: nvidia drivers ver. 4496.pkg2 + rh kernel 2.4.20-20.9

From: Fledgling Penguin (peng_nguyen_at_swbell.net)
Date: 10/11/03 

Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:33:55 GMT

I had a similar problem after I tried recompiling the kernel. I finally
threw my hands up in disgusted resignation and reinstalled the whole system.
Now the nVidia drivers loaded perfectly.

"Paul Lutus" <nospam@nosite.zzz> wrote in message
news:vo6qispn4a3va6@corp.supernews.com...
> zeljko wrote:
>
> > Does anybody get this combination to work ?
> > If answer is yes , then please explain how.
> > Machine is RH9 + RH kernel-2.4.20-20.9 + RH kernel-source-2.4.20-20.9 on
> > PIII 1.2Ghz+256 Mb, Nvidia GeForce MX400.
> > After recompilation of drivers with nvidia installer , there is a lot of
> > unsatisfied depedencies,
>
> Name them.
>
> > so driver nvidia.o cannot be loaded.
> > Everything works fine with older RH 9 kernels.
>
> List the unsatisfied dependencies.
>
> I am running RH 9, same kernel as you have, same sources, current NVidia
> driver installs itself without incident.
>
> Normaly the NVidia installer won't even create the module if there are
> unsatisfied dependencies.
>
> --
> Paul Lutus
> http://www.arachnoid.com
>

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