Re: Nvidia, Debian's Woody, kernel 2.4.18, and xfree86

[Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>]

At 2002-05-04T21:59:57Z, Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net> writes:

> Installing the nVidia driver is a process of installing two debs, reading
> plain English instructions on how to build the software, then installing
> the two resulting debs and restarting X.  I really don't see how you can
> mess it up.

Easy.  Install a kernel-image package, say kernel-image-2.4.18-686 .  Follow
the instructions in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-src to the letter and look
at the resulting .deb:

root@pooh:/usr/src# dpkg --contents nvidia-kernel-2.4.18_1.0.2880-1+10.00.Custom_i386.deb  | head -n 14
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-05-04 19:59:57 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-05-04 19:59:55 ./etc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-05-04 19:59:53 ./etc/devfs/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-05-04 19:59:53 ./etc/devfs/conf.d/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       101 2002-05-04 19:59:53 ./etc/devfs/conf.d/nvidia-kernel-2.4.18
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-05-04 19:59:55 ./etc/modutils/
-rw-r--r-- root/root        58 2002-05-04 19:59:55 ./etc/modutils/nvidia-kernel-2.4.18
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-05-04 19:59:53 ./lib/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-05-04 19:59:53 ./lib/modules/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-05-04 19:59:53 ./lib/modules/2.4.18/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-05-04 19:59:53 ./lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-05-04 19:59:53 ./lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-05-04 19:59:53 ./lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/video/
-rw-r--r-- root/root   1067243 2002-05-04 19:59:53 ./lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver

Oops!  The rest of the kernel modules are in /lib/modules/2.4.18-686, which
leads to errors like:

  root@pooh:/usr/src# modprobe NVdriver
  modprobe: Can't locate module NVdriver

OK, then, load the module by hand:

  root@pooh:/usr/src# insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver 
  Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA

Hey!  That worked!  Silently resolve to manually load NVdriver every time
you reboot the machine in the future, and you're on your way!  OK, maybe
that was needlessly sarcastic, but that's more or less the possition I've
found myself in.
-- 
Kirk Strauser


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