On Friday 13 Aug 2004 09:31, Julian Opificius wrote:
It's not that it's difficult, I was just hoping to get away with a simple binary install, that's all.
I guess I'll have to d/l the source and do it that way. I was just being lazy trying to use the binary ;-)
Before I leap in with all four feet, does the source method properly support the FX 5500?
Cheers for the advice, b.t.w., - the warnings are well heeded.
Julian. =============
On Aug 13, 2004, at 3:18 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!...
if you kernel is after version 2.6.5-7.75 ie 2.6.5-7.95 or later then you need to "cd /usr/src/linux" make cloneconfig make prepare-all cd to where you have you Nvidia file stored ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run --kernel-source-path= /usr/src/linux .
Accept the blurb bit and ok the rest as it comes up away you go if it is unable to find a pre compiled driver it will compile one itself and install it if this fails then it means you aint got the FULL KERNEL SOURCES INSTALLED 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 .
just do as the instructions tell you and if you got every thing you need it will work the only bit i dont do is the sax2 bit i do that bit by hand dont like/trust sax/sax2 it has screwed up completelt too many times
If you need any further help let me know i will see if i can help the important thing is to ensure you have the complete kernel sources that is the big failure a lot of people have .
Cheers Pete
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not havin an fx5500 i cant realy say but i would hazzard a guess at yes if you use the latest 6111 drivers .. Pete .. -- Linux user No: 256242 Machine No: 139931 G6NJR Pete also MSA registered "Quinton 11" A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan PGN