Difficulty in installing NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-7167-pkg2.run

[Adam Membrey]

david wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:54 +1100, Adam Membrey wrote:
> 
>>david wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:23 +1100, Adam Membrey wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I'm currently running linux 2.6.11 with Hoary Ubuntu (hence I can't use 
>>>>nvidia-glx).  I had these drivers working on my previous install, 
>>>>however a convertfs trying to get reiser working quickly decimated that 
>>>>install.
>>>>
>>>>I'm trying to install this app and it says that it can't locate the 
>>>>kernel-source, I'm just wondering exactly what packages I will need.
>>>>
>>>>At this stage I have:
>>>>
>>>>linux-headers-2.6.11-1
>>>>linux-source-2.6.11
>>>>linux-tree-2.6.11
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Try adding the appropriately numbered
>>>"linux-image" (linux-image-2.6.11-1)
>>>
>>>David
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Apologies David, I should have added that I have that in there already, 
>>since it's the kernel that I'm running.
>>
>>I've extracted all the files from the linux-source-2.6.11 but the nvidia 
>>installer gives me the following error message when I point it to my 
>>kernel source:
>>
>>ERROR: If you are using a Linux 2.4 kernel, please make sure
>>        you either have configured kernel sources matching your
>>        kernel or the correct set of kernel headers installed
>>        on your system.
>>
>>        If you are using a Linux 2.6 kernel, please make sure
>>        you have configured kernel sources matching your kernel
>>        installed on your system. If you specified a separate
>>        output directory using either the "KBUILD_OUTPUT" or
>>        the "O" KBUILD parameter, make sure to specify this
>>        directory with the SYSOUT environment variable or with
>>        the appropriate nvidia-installer command line option.
>>ERROR: Installation has failed.  Please see the file
>>        '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details.  You may find 
>>suggestions
>>        on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux
>>        driver download page at www.nvidia.com.
>>
>>I will now list ALL the 2.6.11's I have installed:
>>
>>linux-doc-2.6.11
>>linux-headers-2.6.11-1-amd64-k8
>>linux-source-2.6.11
>>linux-tree-2.6.11
>>linux-image-2.6.11-1-amd64-k8
>>linux-patch-ubuntu-2.6.11
>>
> 
> 
> 
> I had some problems installing the nvidia driver on slackware10 a week
> or so ago and got round it with the 
> --kernel-name="2.6.7" --kernel-source="/usr/src/linux-2.6.7" option
> added.
> 
> I dunno, they finally release nvidia drivers which work beautifully with
> the 2.6 kernel just in time for the new 2.6.11 kernel which doesn't work
> with the new nvidia drivers. It's a bloody merry-go-round.
> 
> Hope this helps (though it probably wont)
> 
> David
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 

A big shoutout to Nermal in the IRC channel for fixing this for me, it 
required me to do a "sudo apt-get install kernel-headers-2.6-amd64-k8"