On Saturday 31 October 2009 22:03:04 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > For instance, you might be running 2.6.31-r4 and also have 2.6.31-r3 > > installed. To install nvidia-drivers, you must build it twice - against > > each kernel you want to use it with (nvidia-drivers builds and installs a > > kernel driver into /lib/modules/<kernel version>) > > It's a bit more obfuscated than that. Maybe nvidia-drivers work > different, but ati-drivers will build against /usr/src/linux but install > the actual modules in /lib/modules/running_kernel. If /usr/src/linux > doesn't point to the running kernel, the modules will be installed in > the wrong place.
That is just so mind-bogglingly absurdly stupid I doubt if ATI should even be allowed near a computer.... Compiling code never depends on something running, it only depends on things being present that can be linked against. Thanks for reminding me why I insist on NVidia GPUs, I'd forgotten. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
