Re: re nvidia drivers
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 07:56:32PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> john gennard wrote:
> > Bob Proulx wrote:
> > I have a self compiled kernel using 2.4.21 which was being
>
> Should be fine too. I just like using the package system for my
> machines. Just build the module with your kernel source and you
> should be fine.
>
> > Where I went wrong seems to be at the following point. I don't
> > understand the command - is there a typo?
>
> No typo. It looks fine to me.
>
> > > tar xzf nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz # /usr/src/modules/...
> >
> > Very many thanks, Bob, for your detailed response - I should be
> > able to proceed when I understand the above line.
>
> tar xzf file.tar.gz
>
> x -- extract
> z -- gzip'd compressed
> f -- filename
> # a shell comment character. The rest of the line is ignored.
>
> 'tar' is one of those commands that does not take options. It takes
> arguments since they are not optional. 'tar' must have a command. So
> there are no '-' required. This is similar to 'ar' which 'tar'
> follows. A lot of the BSD based commands are like that. Look at 'ps'
> for another example. Although you may put a '-' before the command if
> you want and many people do. It is ignored for tar.
>
> That command will unpack the file into ./modules/nvidia-kernel-1.0.2880/
> in your current directory. The presence of files in modules will be
> detected by make-kpkg which will build them as modules automatically.
> This is an automated installer which will install the
> NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2880.tar.gz (partial) source directory.
>
> If you are compiling the kernel yourself then you will need to handle
> this yourself too. I have been using make-kpkg to the point I have
> forgotten how to do it otherwise.
>
> Bob
I've succeeded now with no problems. As you implied everything
is simple and painless when one understands basically what is
going on.
I do use 'make-kpkg' and had linux-2.4.21 as a directory under
/usr/src, so from within that directory I used
'# make-kpkg modules_image' and the correct version was appended
and the module built.
Oh! and I always do most work as user and 'su' to root for
installation, in my circumstances I don't think I need to do
more.
Being well into my seventies and coming very late to this
interest, I use some simple things which suit me including
always booting from floppies (on both my boxes) and not using
modules, compiling everything I need into the kernels. So I
need to find out what I will need to do in future if, for
instance, I want to upgrade a kernel.
Again, Bob, many thanks for your assistance and help. Your
installation guide I find easy to understand and follow -
could it not be included in the -src debs to replace the
existing documentation to help ignorami like me?
Sincere regards, John.
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