Re: nvidia building from source (2.6.15)

[David Liontooth <liontooth@cogweb.net>]

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 ?
>
> 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.
> >     
I ran nvidia 7676 for 2.6.14, but had to upgrade to 8178-3 for 2.6.16. 
Not sure about 2.6.15.
To build the package, I install nvidia-kernel-source, cd /usr/src/linux 
(where I have the kernel) and

   make-kpkg -rev 1 modules_image

Works beautifully.

Dave
> > Len Sorensen
> >     
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