Re: nvidia building from source (2.6.15)

[Sebastian Haase <haase@msg.ucsf.edu>]

Len,
Thanks for the reply. Could you be little more verbose on what 
dpkg-source -x nvidia*dsc
means !?  Where do I get the nvidia*dsc  file(s) ? Does 
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -b  
automatically try to get all the build-dependencies ?

Thanks,
Sebastian Haase


On Tuesday 04 April 2006 11:29, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:24:19AM -0800, Sebastian Haase wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm running kernel version 2.6.15 from backports (2.6.15-1-amd64-k8-smp)
<snip>
>
> Perhaps you can rebuild the newer nvidia package.  Not sure.  Then again
> it might depend on a newer debhelper version or something.  You can try
> it though with the source package from etch/sid, and doing:
>
> dpkg-source -x nvidia*dsc
> cd nvidia-...
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -b
>
> Then install the resulting packages with dpkg -i
>
> I actually though 7174-3 worked with 2.6.15 though.  Maybe that is x86
> only though.  Or maybe amd64 doesn't have the same version as sarge i386
> does.  Worth checking actually.
>
> Len Sorensen