Re: system upgrade woes...

From: Adam bultman <adamb@glaven.org>
Date: Wed Apr 26 2006 - 10:42:03 AKDT

Clay Scott wrote:
> last night i installed slackware's stock 2.4.31 kernel source, recompiled and was able to get X to start, though the nvidia drivers didn't want to compile for it. this only leads me to believe that it's something with my 2.6 kernel config that's at fault here. i'm compiling the kernel the same way i always have without issue. perhaps that's my problem. anything special as far as compiling the kernel on amd64 that i might be missing? anything that could cause lockups when starting x that i haven't found out about yet?
>

I realize this might be a bit late, but my last message died (T-bird in
dapper is pretty crashy) and I've been too lazy to report back since.

At any rate, getting Nvidia cards to work is an act of sorcery. Until
recently, I haven't been able to get my Geforce 4 MX 440 to work in
linux in about 2 years. Ever since I left gentoo, basically. I got it
to work once, but it stopped working at next boot.

Yesterday I went and bought a new card - Geforce 6600 - and I got it to
work, but oddly so. I had an ATI card (it was cheaper) but the fglrx
driver didn't work (and the glx driver was broken, too) so I had the
remnants of the fglrx driver in there, too (I cannot remove it using
dpkg or apt-get either - it fails on something, then pukes. I can find
no way to remedy this.).

I installed the Nvidia drivers from the runfile that they have on their
site - the one that matches what is in the ubuntu apt repository. I run
that, have it install drivers. Then I had to apt-get the nvidia-glx
drivers, but have it only download it. I used alien to turn it into a
tarball, unpacked it, then copied the files into place. From there, I
made sure that the correct nvidia kernel module was getting loaded (I
have two disparate ones, and I cannot find the one that's getting loaded
at boot - its not anywhere, but the kernel finds it) and it works like a
gem.

Head. Ache. Head. Ache.

Adam

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