Re: NVIDIA driver and modconf/.deb
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 13:10:54 -0300
Frederico Rodrigues Abraham <devotion@terra.com.br> wrote:
> Hi.
> I currently have 2 kernels installed on my machine. 2.2.20-idepci
>
> (default on debian cd) and a compiled 2.4.22 from www.kernel.org
> I've tried to install the NVIDIA driver from www.nvidia.com from
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-4496.html and
> installed it for my 2.4 kernel. I have some questions...
> - Is there a way to build the driver as a .deb, that is only
> loaded
> on the kernel 2.4?
You can apt-get nvidia-source , which will give you a tar.gz in /usr/src
which when untarred will give you a /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel.
After that, its simple, just jump into your /usr/src/linux-2.4.x
directory, and run:
make-kpkg --added-modules nvidia-kernel modules_image
This will create a nvidia-kernel deb in /usr/src for that kernel. When
you install it, it will be installed only for the kernel you compiled it
for. Just make sure you used the make-kpkg method to compile the kernel,
and make sure you use the same rev tags, if you used any.
> - Is there a way to build the driver for the 2.2 kernel too? It
> requires modinfo.h from the kernel source, but the
> kernel-source-2.2.20-woody does not have it, so i cant build the
> driver for this kernel...
I'm not sure this is possible, google it, I know you can build for 2.6
for certain though.
> - I think i screwed up the GLx/GLcore (software rendering)
> drivers
> for my 2.2 kernel, so i cant run opengl apps at all... is there an
> easy way to fix this (like reinstalling a package from the cd)? If
> there is not, no problem, i can reinstall my system.
'reinatall my system' is something windows users do! You can
apt-get --purge your existing GL drivers (make sure you back it up if
you dont know what you're doing) and install nvidia-glx (i'm assuming
thats what you're looking for).
>
> Thanks
> -- Fred
>
>
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Naitik.
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