Re: Kernel 2.6 / Suse 9

From: Keith Clark (clarkphotography_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/11/03 

Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:50:25 -0800

catimimi wrote:

>
>
> All my hardware works as with kernel 2.4. I mention that my graphic card is
> a Matrox
> and not Nvidia. There seem to be problems with these cards.

Actually with Nvidia cards you just re-compile the kernel modules.

I know you're using a Matrox but I thought I'd post instructions for Nvidia
users who may be having trouble with 2.6.

First, for the 4496 drivers, assuming you'd downloaded the driver from Nvidia's
website, you type "sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run --extract-only".

This extracts the source code to compile the driver with.

Then you go to http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html. Download the patch, patch the
Nvidia source per the instructions on the web page, and the modified installer,
and you should be good to go.

I know this works with RedHat using kernel source from www.kernel.org, as I've
done it a few times now. I haven't tried it with a Suse kernel yet (hopefully
I'll have time by this coming weekend).

--Keith

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