<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I´m trying to install nvidia driver in lenny my kernel is this one : 2.6.26-1-686 #lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04) I´ve installed the package: #dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-1-686_173.14.09+3_i386.deb after that I´ve takent he following steps: #ln -sf /usr/bin/gcc-4.1 /usr/bin/cc #/etc/init.d/gdm stop #m-a prepare #sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1.run --x-module-patch=/usr/lib/xorg/modules here is my /var/log/nvidia-installer.log : .... Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface WARNING: You do not appear to have an NVIDIA GPU supported by the 180.29 NVIDIA Linux graphics driver installed in this system. For further details, please see the appendix SUPPORTED NVIDIA GRAPHICS CHIPS in the README available on the Linux driver download page at http://www.nvidia.com. -> License accepted. -> Installing NVIDIA driver version 180.29. -> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: No) -> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; this means that the installer will need to compile a new kernel interface. -> Performing CC sanity check with CC="cc". -> Performing CC version check with CC="cc". -> Kernel source path: '/lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/build' -> Kernel output path: '/lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/build' -> Performing rivafb check. -> Performing nvidiafb check. -> Performing Xen check. -> Cleaning kernel module build directory. executing: 'cd ./usr/src/nv; make clean'... -> Building kernel module: executing: 'cd ./usr/src/nv; make module SYSSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/bu ild SYSOUT=/lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/build'... NVIDIA: calling KBUILD... make CC=cc KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 -C /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/build SUBDIRS=/tmp /selfgz15411/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1/usr/src/nv 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) .... include/linux/highmem.h: In function ‘zero_user_segments’: include/linux/highmem.h:134: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in a rithmetic include/linux/highmem.h:134: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in a rithmetic include/linux/highmem.h:134: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in a rithmetic include/linux/highmem.h:134: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in a rithmetic include/linux/highmem.h:137: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in a rithmetic include/linux/highmem.h:137: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in a rithmetic include/linux/highmem.h:137: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in a rithmetic include/linux/highmem.h:137: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in a rithmetic ... In file included from include/linux/list.h:6, from include/linux/preempt.h:11, from include/linux/spinlock.h:49, from include/linux/seqlock.h:29, from include/linux/time.h:8, from include/linux/timex.h:57, from include/linux/sched.h:54, from include/linux/utsname.h:35, from /tmp/selfgz15411/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1/usr/src/ nv/nv-linux.h:19, from /tmp/selfgz15411/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1/usr/src/ nv/nv-vm.c:14: include/linux/prefetch.h: In function ‘prefetch_range’: include/linux/prefetch.h:57: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in a rithmetic In file included from include/asm/dma-mapping.h:9, from include/linux/dma-mapping.h:52, from include/asm-generic/pci-dma-compat.h:7, from include/asm/pci.h:92, from include/linux/pci.h:948, from /tmp/selfgz15411/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1/usr/src/ nv/nv-linux.h:86, from /tmp/selfgz15411/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1/usr/src/ nv/nv-vm.c:14: include/linux/scatterlist.h: In function ‘sg_virt’: include/linux/scatterlist.h:199: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in arithmetic In file included from /tmp/selfgz15411/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1/usr/src/ nv/nv-linux.h:113, from /tmp/selfgz15411/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1/usr/src/ nv/nv-vm.c:14: include/linux/highmem.h: In function ‘zero_user_segments’: include/linux/highmem.h:134: warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in a rithmetic .... NVIDIA: left KBUILD. -> done. -> Kernel module compilation complete. ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko'. This happens most frequently when this kernel module was built against the wrong or improperly configured kernel sources, with a version of gcc that differs from the one used to build the target kernel, or if a driver such as rivafb/nvidiafb is present and prevents the NVIDIA kernel module from obtaining ownership of the NVIDIA graphics device(s), or NVIDIA GPU installed in this system is not supported by this NVIDIA Linux graphics driver release. Please see the log entries 'Kernel module load error' and 'Kernel messages' at the end of the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for more information. -> Kernel module load error: insmod: error inserting './usr/src/nv/nvidia.ko': -1 No such device -> Kernel messages: [ 18.981497] NET: Registered protocol family 10 [ 18.982011] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions [ 19.395065] lp: driver loaded but no devices found [ 19.448443] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver [ 22.168445] pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage from process: discover. [ 22.168445] pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools. [ 22.168445] pcmcia: see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html for details. [ 24.737716] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11 [ 24.739475] NET: Registered protocol family 31 [ 24.739548] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 24.739618] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 24.807541] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.9 [ 24.807613] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 24.876146] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized [ 24.876146] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized [ 24.876146] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8 [ 25.700374] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth2: link is not ready [ 25.919571] eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1 [ 44.704026] eth1: no IPv6 routers present [ 5543.819902] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. [ 5543.825610] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found! [ 5694.278329] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found! [ 6036.064334] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found! [ 6216.542003] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found! [ 8545.971689] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found .... my /usr/src content is this: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 35 2009-02-22 03:46 linux -> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-02-24 21:50 linux-headers-2.6.26-1-486 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-02-22 03:46 linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-02-24 21:50 linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686-bigmem drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-02-24 21:50 linux-headers-2.6.26-1-amd64 drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2009-02-22 03:45 linux-headers-2.6.26-1-common drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2009-02-24 21:50 linux-headers-2.6.26-1-common-openvz drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2009-02-24 21:51 linux-headers-2.6.26-1-common-vserver drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2009-02-24 21:51 linux-headers-2.6.26-1-common-xen drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-02-24 21:50 linux-headers-2.6.26-1-openvz-686 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-02-24 21:51 linux-headers-2.6.26-1-vserver-686 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-02-24 21:51 linux-headers-2.6.26-1-vserver-686-bigmem drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-02-24 21:51 linux-headers-2.6.26-1-xen-686 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-02-22 03:46 linux-kbuild-2.6.26 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 26 2009-02-22 03:46 linux-OLDVERSION.1235285180 -> linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686 drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2009-02-24 22:16 linux-source-2.6.26 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48398221 2009-01-10 12:37 linux-source-2.6.26.tar.bz2 drwxrwxr-x 3 root src 4096 2009-02-22 23:44 modules drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2009-02-22 19:24 rpm Can anyone help me out on this please </td></tr></table>