Re: [SLE] NVidia driver for 2.4.19 kernel
On Monday 30 September 2002 00:35, Herman Knief wrote:
If you have source RPM or tgz files of the latest drivers, you can prolly "rebuild" them... otherwise, wait until 8.1 comes out since it will be based on 2.4.19.
Is there a packaged nVidia driver for a 2.4.19 kernel, or do I have to compile my own? I have the last drivers - checked on apt, YOU and nVidia site and they refuse to work, complaining about being compiled for 2.4.18.
I'm on a 3.6k connection, so I'd like to avoid downloading the kernel sources.
Thanks, but I just realized my mistake. I got scared when I saw in synaptic 188M, but the actual rpm to download is only 34M. So it's gonna take "only" about 3 hours :) . As for the sources, they're available on the nVidia's site. When I was using RedHat I was always "rolling my own" drivers. -- mioriticus "Think of it as evolution in action."
Bogdan Ionita wrote:
As for the sources, they're available on the nVidia's site. When I was using RedHat I was always "rolling my own" drivers.
When I was using Red Hat, I was compiling kernels and nvidia drivers all the time. Now I'm using the SuSE kernel and install nvidia drivers with yast. They work great too, so why waste the time? If you want to test kernels, then yes, compiling your own makes sense. -- Silviu Marin-Caea Systems Engineer Linux/Unix http://www.genesys.ro Phone +40723-267961
On Monday 30 September 2002 08:35, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
Bogdan Ionita wrote:
As for the sources, they're available on the nVidia's site. When I was using RedHat I was always "rolling my own" drivers.
When I was using Red Hat, I was compiling kernels and nvidia drivers all the time. Now I'm using the SuSE kernel and install nvidia drivers with yast. They work great too, so why waste the time?
If you want to test kernels, then yes, compiling your own makes sense.
AFAIK there are no nVidia drivers for 2.4.19. The last versions are all for 2.4.18, and of course, I was curious about 2.4.19 k_athlon :). Except for a difference in gcc versions, which I figured how to solve, everything went smoothly and so far the driver works great. -- mioriticus "Think of it as evolution in action."
AFAIK there are no nVidia drivers for 2.4.19. The last versions are all for 2.4.18, and of course, I was curious about 2.4.19 k_athlon
:).
Except for a difference in gcc versions, which I figured how to solve, everything went smoothly and so far the driver works great.
I have installed the athlon 2.4.19 kernel on SuSE 8.0, and used the nvidia drivers for SuSE 8.1. Everything works great!
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