At 2002-05-04T21:59:57Z, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Installing the nVidia driver is a process of installing two debs, reading > plain English instructions on how to build the software, then installing > the two resulting debs and restarting X. I really don't see how you can > mess it up.
Easy. Install a kernel-image package, say kernel-image-2.4.18-686 . Follow the instructions in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-src to the letter and look at the resulting .deb: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src# dpkg --contents nvidia-kernel-2.4.18_1.0.2880-1+10.00.Custom_i386.deb | head -n 14 drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2002-05-04 19:59:57 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2002-05-04 19:59:55 ./etc/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2002-05-04 19:59:53 ./etc/devfs/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2002-05-04 19:59:53 ./etc/devfs/conf.d/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 101 2002-05-04 19:59:53 ./etc/devfs/conf.d/nvidia-kernel-2.4.18 drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2002-05-04 19:59:55 ./etc/modutils/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 58 2002-05-04 19:59:55 ./etc/modutils/nvidia-kernel-2.4.18 drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2002-05-04 19:59:53 ./lib/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2002-05-04 19:59:53 ./lib/modules/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2002-05-04 19:59:53 ./lib/modules/2.4.18/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2002-05-04 19:59:53 ./lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2002-05-04 19:59:53 ./lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2002-05-04 19:59:53 ./lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/video/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 1067243 2002-05-04 19:59:53 ./lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver Oops! The rest of the kernel modules are in /lib/modules/2.4.18-686, which leads to errors like: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src# modprobe NVdriver modprobe: Can't locate module NVdriver OK, then, load the module by hand: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src# insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA Hey! That worked! Silently resolve to manually load NVdriver every time you reboot the machine in the future, and you're on your way! OK, maybe that was needlessly sarcastic, but that's more or less the possition I've found myself in. -- Kirk Strauser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
