Re: making nvidia drivers

["John F." <jfloren@moseslake-wa.com>]

Gavrila wrote:

> 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
I went to the nvidia_kernel dir and typed 'make install', but it said 
"*** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop."  The 
nvidia_kernel dir is under /usr/src/modules.  I have made a .deb file 
from /usr/src/modules for some alsa-modules, but I can't remember how to 
do it.  Any ideas?
Thanks

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