Re: nvidia building from source (2.6.15)

[Micheal Waltz <mwaltz@ucsd.edu>]

I don't know if you knew this already, but I had to apply some patches 
to 1.0-8178 found in the NVIDIA forums in order to get everything 
working properly for 2.6.14+.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=050a38613ebb399cc07314ea5e6d04e4&t=62021

I'm running Sarge AMD64 with kernel 2.6.16 and the 8178 driver release.

Micheal

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 09:10:42AM -0800, Sebastian Haase wrote:
>   
> > 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 ?
> >     
>
> Well there is:
>
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/
>
> It should have a tar file, a diff and a dsc.
>
> 7174-3 is sarge's version.  I know that one will build on sarge amd64.
> not sure if it works with 2.6.15, although I thought it did when I tried
> it on i386 at least.  8178-2 or -3 might require a dpkg/debhelper/other
> stuff upgrade to compile/use at all.
>
> Heck, even apt-get source nvidia-source ought to grab it for you, if
> pointed at the official debian sources location.
>
> Len Sorensen
>
>
>   

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