Frank McCormick wrote: > > > I have taken the first steps towards compiling an Nvidia module for my > Quadro-pro card... > I downloaded and installed the source for the current kernel, which > aptitude dumped into /usr/src. Reading the readme, one of the first > things it says is " DO NOT USE THE /usr/src area" because that is > where the headers for libc I guess are stored. What is up here ? Well, I always store there all the sources related with my kernel, modules, etc... I haven't get any problem... BTW, remember doing the symlink to /usr/src/linux from your kernel-source. And as > I rarely decompress files, I have forgotten the command to decompress > tar/bz2 files . That's why man exists :) `man tar', and even more simple!: `tar --help'... Anyway tar -jxf linux-2.6.x.x.tar.bz2 Regards, Jose Luis. -- ghostbar on debian linux 'sid' 2.6.22 x86_64-SMP - #382503 Weblog: http://ghostbar.ath.cx/ - http://linuxtachira.org http://debian.org.ve - irc.debian.org #debian-ve #debian-devel-es San Cristóbal, Venezuela. http://chaslug.org.ve Fingerprint = 3E7D 4267 AFD5 2407 2A37 20AC 38A0 AD5B CACA B118
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