On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 09:01, tallison@tacocat.net wrote: > > 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... IT IS THAT EASY! -- greg@gregfolkert.net REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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