[wplug] geforce4 and redhat

[bgtrio at yahoo.com]

Perhaps the symlink /usr/src/linux is pointing to the old kernel source 
directory, so it's trying to use the wrong headers?  That's caught me more 
than once.

Incidentally, I use the source rpms and they really do work pretty well, 
but be aware that the syntax has changed as of redhat 8.0; you have to run 
the command 

rpmbuild --rebuild NV...kernel...src.rpm
rpmbuild --rebuild NV...GLX...src.rpm

then go into the /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 folder and get the newly built 
rpms that you now have to install in the usual way.

I'm reallly wishing now that I had gotten a Radeon instead of a Geforce2, 
since there appears to be no hope of getting Nvidia to play nice with the 
dri driver developers.

Bryon

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Tom McCullough wrote:

> >
> >
> >	Try setting it up for generic VGA first, or skip it and install the
> >nVidia drivers directly since you've got nothing to lose in terms of a
> >trashed config.  You will decidedly have to add the nVidia drivers after the
> >fact.....  Red Hat will /never/ be including a closed pre-compiled binary
> >driver for anything.
> >
> I am trying to run the make file that comes with the 
> NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191 tarball and I get the following line:
> no rule to make target 
> '/lib/modules/2.4.18-14/build/include/linux/config.h, needed by 'nv.o'.
> stop
> the problem is it should be 2.4.20-2.48 not 2.4.18-14 (uname -r)
> note also that .../kernel/... is not between 2.4.18-14 and build
> there is a line in the makefile that reads: KERNDIR=/lib/modules/$(shell 
> uname -r)
> it should give the correct 2.4.20-2.48 path, so what is happening?
> any ideas?
> Do you have the Makefile from this tarball available to look into?
> One other thing... the NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191 makefile worked fine. it 
> installs the the openGL library set, I think.
> Both of these worked with the 8.0 distro which was 2.4.18-14.  did the 
> makefile get changed somewhere on the original install maybe?
> thanks for all the previous help and any forthcoming in advance!!
> Tom.................
> 
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