Nvidia Driver - 2.6.25 rc kernels

Discussion in 'Linux - General discussion' started by varnull, Mar 4, 2008.

  1. varnull

    varnull Guest

    Download the latest rc kernel.

    Download the latest nvidia driver.

    Here are the patches.

    http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1575714&postcount=54

    Now extract the kernel enter the top level kernel directory.

    Code:
    patch -p1 </[path to patch]/2.6.25-nvidia-fix.patch 

    Then make any changes you want to the kernel and compile it.

    Code:
    fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd kernel_headers kernel_image 

    Now extract the nvidia installer

    Code:
    sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2.run -x 
    Code:
    cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2 
    Code:
    patch -p1 </[path to patch]/nvidia-drivers-169.12-kernel.patch 

    Reboot into your new kernel

    Do not run the Nvidia installer. Instead go to the Nvidia directory that was created when you extracted the driver.
    Code:
    ./nvidia-installer 
    NOTE::- this is linked to the x64 driver. The i-x86 should work out of the box.. but if you want to experiment you will know how to use the correct filenames ;)

    That should solve some of these nvidia questions..
     
    Last edited by a moderator: Mar 4, 2008
  2. varnull

    varnull Guest

    More nvidia reference materials..

    ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-8178/README/index.html

    [also double posting to get that stupid retard off the main page]
     
    Last edited by a moderator: Mar 5, 2008

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