Re: making nvidia drivers
John F. wrote:
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?
Are these the .deb packages or the tar.gz packages from nvidia's website, i.e.
nvidia-kernel-src-xxx.deb? If they are the .deb packages then make won't
work, because these .deb packages are NOT the source, they are kind of
"wrappers" around the real tar.gz files. If you follow the directions in
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-src/glx, these .debs will download the tar,gz
files for you. Unfortunately, one of them didn't work for me, and later,
after failing to get the alsa-modules to compile too, I gave up on make-kpkg
again and went back to doing things directly. Its actually much simpler. As
root, untar both into some directory, switch to the directory, make clean,
make, make install, and you're done. As long as nvidia-kernel can find the
kernel source (glx doesn't need the kernel source), usually a /usr/src/linux
link, then its pretty much automatic. The same basically applies to the
alsa-source-xxx.tar.gz too.
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