On Friday 13 August 2004 1:18 am, peter Nikolic wrote:
What exactly is the difficulty with the instructions on the Nvidia site ..
Plain enough i thought ..
if your kernel is before version 2.6.5-7.75 then just run the installer ie "./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run" for the latest version ... BTW YOU DO NEED THE FULL KERNEL SOURCES NOT JUST THE BINARY DISTRO!...
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YOU NEED ALL THE *.C *.H FILES IN ALL THE SUB DIRS OFF /usr/src/linux like if you do cd mm return you should have something not unlike this below ..#
ds9:/usr/src/linux/mm # ls . fremap.c mlock.c objrmap.c policy.c swap.c .. highmem.c mmap.c oom_kill.c prio_tree.c swap_state.c Makefile madvise.c mprotect.c page-writeback.c proc_mm.c swapfile.c bootmem.c memory.c mremap.c page_alloc.c readahead.c truncate.c fadvise.c mempool.c msync.c page_io.c shmem.c vmalloc.c filemap.c mincore.c nommu.c pdflush.c slab.c vmscan.c
if you aint then you aint got the FULL Sources i cannot emphasise enough that you need the FULL SOURCES because YOU is not very good at installing the full kernel it only likes to install the binary bit and leaves the rest of it behind ..
This applies to Suse pro 9.1 only dont know about the personal edition think that is a bit brain dead .
Peter, Thanks for your instructive response. It shouldn't be hard, except I don't think I have the sources. I have SuSE 9.1 Pro, and have installed most everything. With only a few exceptions, I've used YaST for all my installations. I don't think it offers to delete the source files after installation like YOU does when doing updates, but maybe it did, and in my ignorance I would have chosen to save space -- don't remember. But I'm not seeing much when I look into my /usr/src/: brian@linux:/usr/src> ls -l total 0 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 168 2004-06-12 11:01 packages brian@linux:/usr/src> cd packages/ brian@linux:/usr/src/packages> ls -la total 0 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 168 2004-06-12 11:01 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 2004-06-12 10:43 .. drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 48 2004-04-05 16:39 BUILD drwxrwxrwt 8 root root 192 2004-06-12 11:01 RPMS drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 48 2004-04-05 16:39 SOURCES drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 48 2004-04-05 16:39 SPECS drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 48 2004-04-05 16:39 SRPMS brian@linux:/usr/src/packages> cd SOURCES/ brian@linux:/usr/src/packages/SOURCES> ls -la total 0 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 48 2004-04-05 16:39 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 168 2004-06-12 11:01 .. brian@linux:/usr/src/packages/SOURCES> Can you share with me how to get the sources, or where to read how to do it? I found some information in the Administrators Guide about "Installing and Compiling Source Packages", but it's not telling me where to get them. By the way, I have Kernel 2.6.5-7.104 Sorry for the beginner level questions. Brian