Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-multimedia (27 mails)

[Adalberto Castelo <castelo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just one more thing, that may or may not be obvious to you: after you install 
the kernel source rpm, make sure you run YOU to update it the same rpm 
version as your kernel's.

HTH

On Sunday 30 January 2005 08:31, Adalberto Castelo wrote:
> Bogi,
>
> Here's what you need:
>
> 1) install the kernel source rpm from SuSE.
> 2) go to /usr/src/linux (where the source should be when you use the suse
> rpms) and type
> 	$ make cloneconfig
> 	This will make sure that the config file used by make to create
> dependencies will match your current kernel's config.
> 3) type
> 	$ make prepare-all
> 4) make sure your system is in init 3 (go to a terminal and type init 3 as
> root, or type '3' on the suse splash screen that shows the boot menu
> (kernel, safe mode, etc.)
> 5) go back to where you have the .run pkg, type
> 	$ sh NVIDIA-etc-etc.run --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux
>
> I assume you can set up the XConfig file or have one already working.
>
> Now, do not mess with what is in /lib, unless you know what you're doing.
> And do not use kernel sources that do not match you kernel perfectly.
>
> That should get you going. Good luck.
>