Nvida Drivers for Precison T3400

[Paul Breen]

Had to roll back to working setup.

Will attempt the upgrade again in the future

Thinking nvdia and Dell is not the easiest combo to setup dualhead

thanks

Paul
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Kosovic" <douglask at itee.uq.edu.au>
To: "Paul Breen" <bargeass at netvigator.com>
Cc: <linux-precision at dell.com>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: Nvida Drivers for Precison T3400


> Hi Paul,
>
> I'm guessing you don't have kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.19.el5 installed.
>
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.19.el5/build is a symlink to
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.19.el5-x86_64
>
> And using the following on the command-line find out which RPM owns that
> dir:
>
> # rpm -qf /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.19.el5-x86_64
> kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.19.el5
>
>
> Cheers,
> Doug
>
> Paul Breen wrote:
>> Thanks Doug,
>>
>> downloaded the dell-nvidia-rhel5-169.12-1dkms.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> Installed using the following command;
>>
>> rpm -Uvh dell-nvidia-rhel5-169.12-1dkms.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> It tried toinstall and then gave me the following two error messages;
>>
>> Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.18-53.1.19.el5 cannot be found
>> at /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.19.el5/build or
>> /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.19.el5/source.
>>
>> Error! could not locate nvida.ko for module nvidia in the DKMS tree. You
>> must run a DKMS build for kernel 2.6.18-53.1.19.el5 (x86_64) first.
>>
>> now X doesn't even start
>>
>> any suggestions?
>>
>> Rgds, Paul
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Kosovic"
>> <douglask at itee.uq.edu.au>
>> To: "Paul Breen" <bargeass at netvigator.com>
>> Cc: <linux-precision at dell.com>
>> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 4:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: Nvida Drivers for Precison T3400
>>
>>
>>> Hi Paul,
>>>
>>>> Nvidia X Server showing I'm using Nvidia driver version 100.14.11
>>>>
>>>> There must be a more recent set of drivers but when I checked the
>>>> Dell Support site the lastest was dell-nvidia-14.11-dkms.A01.x86_64.rpm
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know where I can downlaod a more current RPM ? Thanks
>>>
>>> See email pasted below for details on RHEL5 DKMS for Nvidia's latest
>>> 169.12.
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: linux-precision-bounces at dell.com On Behalf Of Rogelio_Noriega
>>> Sent: Saturday, 1 March 2008 8:14 AM
>>> To: edg at ll.mit.edu; linux-precision at lists.us.dell.com
>>> Subject: RE: Nvidia Driver update request
>>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>>      Nvidia's 169.12 RHEL5 DKMS enabled driver can be downloaded here
>>> http://linux.dell.com/files/nvidia/rhel5/ Please keep in mind this
>>> driver is not officially supported.
>>>
>>> Roger
>>>
>>
>