Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: 2.5/2.6 NVidia (was Re: 2.4 vs 2.6 ver# | Date | Tue, 5 Aug 2003 22:32:34 -0400 |
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On Tuesday 05 August 2003 22:08, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: >On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 18:07:00 EDT, you said: >> Now, the factory nvidia drivers will not build for 2.6, so I don't >> have any X. Whats the status of the kernel versions vis-a-vis >> running a gforce2 MMX 32 megger? > >(Sorry for replying to the list, but let's get this into the > archives in case people actually search before asking... (yeah > right ;)) > >I'm running the NVidia 4496 drivers right now on 2.6.0-test2-mm4. > >Do the following (can be done on a 2.4 kernel if needed) > >1) Get the 4496 drivers from NVidia >2) './NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run --extract-only' >3) Go to www.minion.de and get the patch: > NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4496-2.5.diff 4) cd > NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2/usr/src/nv >5) patch -p1 < NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4496-2.5.diff >6) cp Makefile.kbuild Makefile > >Now *as root*, while running the 2.6 kernel you want support for: >(either single-user or runlevel 3 (No X) are OK here - reboot if > needed) > >7) cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2/usr/src/nv if you're not > there already. 8) make this will build the nvidia.ko, copy to > /lib/modules, and insmod it for you. 9) cd ../../.. back to > the 4496-pgk2 directory >10) 'make install' to put the /usr/lib parts in place. >11) Start X in the usual manner - you've probably got an XFconfig > file with the right NVidia pieces in it already (or you'd not be > asking ;) > >Hope this helps... >You should be ready to go at that point (note that you will need to > do (7) and (8) each time you do a 'make modules_install', but 9/10 > only need doing if/when you upgrade from 4496 to a new version.
I just made a script out of that, thanks, now I'm off to reboot and try it. :)
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