Re: making nvidia drivers

[Gavrila <gavrilus@tiscalinet.it>]

John F. wrote:

> I have a NVIDIA GeForce3, and the "nv" driver doesn't work very well.  
> I want to compile the "nvidia" driver from the sources, but I don't 
> know how to do it.  I have installed nvidia-kernel-source and 
> nvidia-glx-source, but I don't know how to make the .deb packages to 
> install.  What commands do I issue to do this?
> Thanks

I don't really think you need to have a .deb pkg to do that since you're 
'patching' the kernel.
However enter Nvidia_kernel dir and type 'make install', then go to 
Nvidia_glx and do the same. Then you have to edit the XFREE config file 
as stated in the nividia installation guide on nvidia site.

Regards