Let me start by saying that no, I can't get a new card for my user.
So, I've got the 96 nvidia driver. I've rebuilt it several times before,
and Nvidia's installer's always worked fine. Actually, I have the 73 on my
system, and just updated to 5.5, and no problem.
HOWEVER, I last rebuilt my user's driver back in mid-April, after the last
kernel update (was that mid-March?), and everything was fine... until the
other day, when he walked in to tell me he'd had to reboot, and it wasn't
working, and dropped him to command line.
I rebuilt it... and it dies. As in, sometimes, I have to go to another
machine and ssh in to reboot, and sometimes, I have to power cycle his
system. I get garbage with the nvidia driver; with nv, I can at least get
one of his two monitors working.
When I try x with the nvidia driver, it just keeps printing out
initializing GART, I think it is (I've lost the log), and then that it has
failed to allocate ROP.
Anyone see anything like this? I've unpacked the executable, and started
working with the makefiles (and yes, I do understand makefiles), but see
things like a lot of warning in the compile, and the one that makes me
nervous is
make CC=cc KBUILD_OUTPUT=/lib/modules/2.6.18-194.3.1.el5/build
KBUILD_VERBOS
E=1 -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.3.1.el5/source
SUBDIRS=/scratch/NVIDIA-Linux-
x86-96.43.13-pkg1/usr/src/nv modules
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.3.1.el5/build \
KBUILD_SRC=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.3.1.el5-i686 \
KBUILD_EXTMOD="/scratch/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.13-pkg1/usr/src/nv"
-f /usr/
src/kernels/2.6.18-194.3.1.el5-i686/Makefile modules
test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || (
\
echo; \
echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \
echo " include/linux/autoconf.h or
include/config/auto.conf are mis
sing."; \
echo " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src
to fix it
."; \
echo; \
/bin/false)
Even though both those files exist and are where they should be. I've
googled, and find no references to those, and really hope it's not the
card going bad.... So, any clues?
mark