HOWTO: Nvidia 9742 beta drivers in Edgy/Feisty

[ePlus]

This error has been bugging me for some time now:

ERROR: The kernel source path '=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-10-generic' does
not exist. Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files
for your kernel and that they are properly configured; on Red Hat Linux
systems, for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' or
'kernel-devel' RPM installed. If you know the correct kernel source
files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the
'--kernel-source-path' command line option.

I have installed via the Synaptic Package Manager the following:

linux-headers-2.6.17-10-generic
linux-headers-2.6.17-10
kernel-headers-2.4.27-2-386
kernel-headers-2.4.27-2

...Or at least that's what's in /usr/src/. Any help would be greatly apriciated.


ePlus

[Marquis_de_Carabas]

Okay, this worked perfectly for me until I rebooted, at which point I got an error saying: "API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has the version 1.0-7184, but this X module has the version 1.0-9742..."

I tried a few things, none of which worked, then came across this nvnews post.

What worked for me was the very last bit:

you can edit the /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules configuration file and disable the NVIDIA linux-restricted kernel modules (nvidia, nvidia_legacy) via:

DISABLED_MODULES="nv"

Hope this helps if anybody else has similar problems.

[the ev]

Worked like magic. Thank ye.

[whitewizardcoder]

Do you need to uninstall the restricted modules packages for this to work? I need them for my wireless card, but I'd love to get the beta driver...

[User_Program]

My linux-restricted-modules are installed and everything is working fine.

[MeduZa]

At last running on 6.10..

The only way that I get the drivers to compile is uninstalling the restricted modules packages, if not, lot of errors or driver different version of X11 happens

Thank for the guide

[PriceChild]

Do you need to uninstall the restricted modules packages for this to work? I need them for my wireless card, but I'd love to get the beta driver...

Follow this post as well...

(it is explained in the UDSF doc)

Okay, this worked perfectly for me until I rebooted, at which point I got an error saying: "API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has the version 1.0-7184, but this X module has the version 1.0-9742..."

I tried a few things, none of which worked, then came across this nvnews post.

What worked for me was the very last bit:

you can edit the /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules configuration file and disable the NVIDIA linux-restricted kernel modules (nvidia, nvidia_legacy) via:

DISABLED_MODULES="nv"

Hope this helps if anybody else has similar problems.

[whitewizardcoder]

That worked! Thanks for the guide!

[mjpoetic]

That worked! Thanks for the guide!

Works for me too. Just a quick note to everyone. Make sure you aren't neglecting to use "uname -r" in the command for the nvidia installer. That is to say:

sudo ./nvidia-installer -n -s --x-prefix=/usr/lib/xorg/ --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r`

and NOT something like:

sudo ./nvidia-installer -n -s --x-prefix=/usr/lib/xorg/ --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-10

I say this because I was just hitting TAB to complete my directory info and it didn't work with the "...2.6.17-10" path (but the `uname -r` did instead). It seems weird that it didn't though, seeing as how I am using that kernel.

[Shinoda]

I say this because I was just hitting TAB to complete my directory info and it didn't work with the "...2.6.17-10" path (but the `uname -r` did instead). It seems weird that it didn't though, seeing as how I am using that kernel.

That's because you've got more than one item (dir/file) in /usr/src/ starting with linux-headers-2.6.17-10, and since tabbing can't guess which one you want, it just completes the first (piece of) string that is common to all such items. Double-tab then to display all possibilities.

Additionally, type in a terminal uname -r, echo `uname -r`, or echo $(uname -r) to see what `uname -r` and $(uname -r) are replaced with when parsed in a command, and what was missing when you tried using linux-headers-2.6.17-10 through tabbing (possibly -386, -686, -generic, etc).