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2.6.16 and nVidia closed source



Hi,

2.6.16 causes problems for the *closed source* nVidia drivers.

There is already a bug report:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=357992

But that does little for older, legacy type video cards.

I have a TNT2 and could use 7167 on pre-2.6.16.

I found that for *7* series drivers, the patch reported here:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=62889
works. It is:
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-8178-1444349.diff.txt

I do not use the Debian package.
So for the 7xxx *closed source* driver, run:
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7xxx-pkg1 -x

Then cd to NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7xxx-pkg1 and do:

patch -p0 </someplace/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-8178-1444349.diff.txt

Then run:
./nvidia-installer

and you are up and running.

Regards,

H



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