Re: making nvidia drivers
Thank you for pointing that out. The distinction had escaped me.
And since I had for more than a year been done this dozens of times
without make-kpkg I had developed an unnecessary habit. :)
Kevin
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 00:29:38 -0500
Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org> wrote:
> ronin2@bellatlantic.net wrote:
> >
> > OK. The light *finally* dawns.
> >
> > There's no way to build the glx with make-kpkg, since nvidia-kernel
> > must be *installed* before glx will build. And THAT'S why nvidia-glx
> > doesn't get copied into /usr/src/modules. </me slaps forehead>
> >
> > So I guess I've gone as far as I can.
> >
>
> There is no way to build glx with make-kpkg because the glx package
> has nothing to do with the kernel: it is an xfree86 module. When you
> upgrade your kernel, you don't need to reinstall nvidia-glx, you just
> need to install a version of nvidia-kernel for the new kernel.
>
> pretzalz@Pretzalz:~$ dpkg -L nvidia-glx
> /.
> /usr
> /usr/lib
> /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.3123
> /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.3123
> /usr/share
> /usr/share/lintian
> /usr/share/lintian/overrides
> /usr/share/lintian/overrides/nvidia-glx
> /usr/share/doc
> /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx
> /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.gz
> /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.DE.gz
> /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/changelog.Debian.gz
> /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.Debian
> /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/copyright
> /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/examples
> /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/examples/XF86Config.sample.gz
> /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/NVIDIA_Changelog.gz
> /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/license.txt.gz
> /usr/X11R6
> /usr/X11R6/lib
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so.1.0.3123
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.a
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1.0.3123
> /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1
> /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
> package diverts others to: /usr/share/nvidia-glx/diversions/libGL.so.1
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1
>
>
>
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