nVidia Driver 6111 Install problems

[julbug 0]

I am a complete newbie here so bear with me....

 

I have a Dell Optiplex GX270 running slackware 10...with an nVidia GeForce 4 card.

 

I have downloaded the Linux nVidia driver and get the following error during the install.

 

"Unable to load kernel module 'nsound.o'"

 

It goes on to mention that I have an incorrect kernel loaded.

 

Any advice? I know just enough about Linux to be dangerous.

 

[egorgry 0]

What Kernel are you running? do you have the kernel source installed in /usr/src?

 

to find kernel version type uname -r at the console

 

looks like this.

Quote:

[11/18/04][greg@otis:~]$ uname -r

2.6.8.egorgry

 

[CrazyKillerMan 0]

Could this be a problem with module loading??? We should ensure that kernel loading is compiled in the kernel.

[danleff 0]

Yes ! NVIDIA chipset based motherboard? Is the message the following;

 

Quote:

ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvsound.o'. This is most likely because the kernel module was built using the wrong kernel source files. Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your kernel; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' rpm installed. If you know the correct kernel source files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the '--kernel-source-path' commandline option.

 

The kernel-source or kernel-headers package must be installed on the system, which is what the package is looking for.

 

Do you have sound on the system currently?

 

I would also try the newest version of the NVIDIA video card drivers.