[wplug] geforce4 and redhat

[Coutch, Robert]

Here's what I do on RH8 after each kernel upgrade.

I keep a copy of the source rpm for the Nvidia kernel driver
from their website on my system.

After the kernel is updated, I reboot.

Once the system comes up and X fails I tell Xconfigurator not to run.
I am them put into a console.

I type rpmbuild --rebuild Nvidiaxxxxxxxxxx.src.rpm --target
athlon-redhat-linux

(fix the name of the source package and your target for your system)

XF86Config already has "nv" as the driver to load from the last time so
I just reboot and I'm good to go.

I could skip the last reboot but I want to make sure everything was changed
permanently.

I don't use the tar ball.

You probably need the kernel sources/devel rpms installed on you system too
but this should already be the case.


Hope this helps,

Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom McCullough [mailto:mccull1 at attbi.com]
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 1:51 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] geforce4 and redhat


>
>
>	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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