Re: nvidia installation

[tallison@tacocat.net]

> Hi Tom!
>
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Tom Allison wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> Is there some way to use the "stock" kernel-image-2.6 deb packages
>> without rebuilding my own kernel and use NVIDIA drivers?  The howto's
>> imply that this can only be done by building your own kernel.  I can and
>> have in the past, but I really don't care to anymore as it's not a
>> significant win for me.
>>
> [snip]
>
> I'm running the stock 2.6.5 kernel image with nvidia's drivers.
>
> The only thing I had to do was:
> 1. Install kernel-headers
> apt-get install kernel-headers-$(uname -r)
>
> 2. Create a sym link that points to the headers
> ln -s /usr/src/kernel-headers-$(uname -r) /lib/modules/$(uname
> -r)/build
>
> 3. Install Nvidia drivers.
> Just execute NVIDIA-Linux-x86-*.*-****-pkg1.run and it will build the
> driver.
>
> I've done this on every kernel I've used since 2.4.
>

This is great!
You make it sound too easy.
Heck, I should be able to write a script to do this for me...
something that captures uname -r into a temp file and if that's different
or missing, then create it anew and run the link and .run files...