2.5/2.6 NVidia (was Re: 2.4 vs 2.6 ver#

Valdis.Kletnieks_at_vt.edu
Date: 08/06/03

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    To: gene.heskett@verizon.net
Date:	Tue, 05 Aug 2003 22:08:58 -0400

    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.

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