This morning, i have managed to upgrade my PC to the latest kernel, 2.6.25 (actually i build the kernel last night, but i reboot the computer just now). As usual, after booting with new kernel, i had to re-ran the NVidia installer to compile the driver for the current kernel. Unfortunately, it failed, because there was changes in the kernel source code during the 2.6.25 development cycle, so the current driver (71.86.04, 96.43.05, 169.12 and 171.06) are all broken without prior modification.
The NVidia team has anticipated this by releasing a patch for those drivers which can be found on their
forum. To execute the patch and ran the NVidia installer, use this following command (using 71.86.04 as the example):
# sh /path/to/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-71.86.04-pkg0.run \
--apply-patch NVIDIA_kernel-71.86.04-2305230.diff
# sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-71.86.04-pkg0-custom.runAfter that, you can start recompiling your NVidia driver again. It works on my system
Hi ,
ReplyDeleteI have done these modifications but it doesn't work for me.
I'm still having problems with my NVIDIA 8600 GT. I think there's something wrong with xorg.conf because my audio and keyboard are also acting strange.
perhaps you should download the latest version which has been updated for the latest Kernel version
ReplyDeleteI've tried that but it doesnt work. Compiling the latest nvidia driver results in the same error.
ReplyDeleteMay i know your kernel version?
ReplyDeleteAnd what driver version are you using?