Re: X with Nvidia/eVGA card

V Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:07:56 +0000, Hactar napsal(a):



Yup, got the source installed off CD 5. But, the Nvidia driver install
(*.run) disclaims knowledge of the location of the source. So I supplied
that with "--kernel-source-location". Then it said it didn't know what
version source was in the directory I supplied. Arrgh. Idea: check the
link at /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build and see if it's correct.

I got a fresh copy of the 2.6.18.2 sources from kernel.org; I'll compile
(and boot from) a kernel that way and see if it acts any better.


The packaged kernels usualy have 3 parts:

kernel image (or binary)
kernel source (the big tarball)
kernel headers (just a tiny part of the source that has the headers you
need to build against the kernel image

The names of the above depend on the distro.

HTH,

--Yan
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