Re: making nvidia drivers
On Sunday 16 March 2003 14:39, 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?
> Thanks
>
Maybe I'm in the wrong ball park but isn't it
cd /usr/src/modules/nvidia-x.x.x-whatever
./configure
then cd to your kernel source
make modules
make modules_install
update-modules
?
At least this was how I installed the ALSA drivers
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Eike
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