Re: making nvidia drivers
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 04:20:23PM -0500, ronin2@bellatlantic.net wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:13:35 -0800
> "John F." <jfloren@moseslake-wa.com> wrote:
>
> > I looked at that, but the part with "make-kpkg modules_image" seems
> > like it is starting to compile a new kernel. I don't know, but most
> > of the questions I was being asked made no sense to me, I'm still
> > kinda a newbie after a year and a half in Linux. I don't know what
> > I'm supposed to do.
>
> In that case I'd recommend you install dwww and newbiedoc. In newbiedoc
> see the section about compiling custom kernels The Debian Way.
>
> If you try it you'll be hooked.
>
> The command that looked strange to you is not to build a kernel or the
> modules from kernel sources, but to build debs from the sources in
> /usr/src/modules (one deb per subdirectory).
>
> I have trouble with the nvidia-glx too.
>
> Kevin
>
Do this:
1. apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src nvidia-glx-src
2. make-kpkg modules_image
3. dpkg -i nvidia-kernel*.deb
4. cd nvidia-glx-x.x.xxxx
5. dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
6. cd /usr/src
7. dpkg -i nvidia-glx*.deb
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