[plug] nvidia driver

[Michael]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Jim Householder wrote:

> Hi
>
> Is anyone having any luck with installing nvidia drivers?  I'm getting 
> nowhere.
>
> I just built and installed 2.6.8.  I used
> make mrproper
> make O=xxx mrproper
> make O=xxx oldconfig    (which used the Mdk 10.1 Official .config)
> make O=xxx
> make O=xxx modules_install
> make O=xxx install
>
> It boots and appears to run with no problems.  However when I try to build 
> the nvidia driver it falls over telling me that it's looking at the wrong 
> source files.  There is only one source tree installed.
>
> The directory in /lib/modules is 2.6.8.jeh-1 and the source tree is under 
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1-12mdk.

This tells you the problem, the kernel you're running and the source are 
different, otherwise you would have /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk.

Just update to kernel-2.6.8.1-21mdk and the appropriate (same version) 
kernel source.

Cheers
Michael Collard