[plug] Re: NVdriver

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Wed Nov 20 19:03:37 WST 2002


> Fear not. That NVdriver can be built from source and an 'nv.o' object file 
> which is kernel independent.
>   Though they dont release the full source, it should work with future 
> kernels. For a while, anyway.

*lol*
nftpget ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/kernel/v2.5/linux-2.4.48.tar.bz2
(build, install, boot)
tar xvzf NVIDIA_kernel*
cd NVIDIA_kernel*
make

and it refuses to build having checked for a >2.4 kernel.

Sure, 2.5 isn't exactly what I want to use, but the point is it'll work 
for most 2.4 revisions, thats it. This is also true of a true open 
source driver... but they're a tad easier to fix *grin*.

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