Thanks Gustin
at Eastern and the last day after Eastern I had no time to focus the
trouble.
Gustin Johnson wrote:
> On 10-04-04 04:07 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> the proprietary NVIDIA installer can't build the driver for a self build
>> kernel-rt, because it doesn't know the kernel source path, btw. it seems
>>
>
> Did you use the kernel from kernel.org or one that was packaged?
>
Yep! Kernel and RT patch are from kernel.org.
>> to be that the needed kernel source is provided by the package
>> linux-headers and not by the package kernel-source.
>>
>
> Both will actually work. The kernel source package leaves a compressed
> file /usr/src that you will need to untar. Then the easiest thing to do
> is to sym link /usr/src/linux to
> /usrc/src/linux-<version-that-you-dempressed>/
>
No, linux-source (a typo, I called it "kernel source") doesn't include
version.h and .config and perhaps some other headers or configurations
too, while linux-headers do include version.h, .config and perhaps
something additional too.
>> For the self-build kernel-rt on Suse there isn't such an issue, the
>> installer was able to build the proprietary driver. I can't say if the
>> driver is completely ok, at least a session started. I zero in on
>> getting it working for 64 Studio, so at the moment I won't make tests
>> running Suse.
>> During the feasts I don't have much time for the computer, e.g. to
>> extensively search the web.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
> You may wish to review the Debian documentation on the topic.
> http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/
>
> A more concise document might be this one:
> http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_ubuntu
>
I didn't verified it jet, but I guess I did build my kernels exactly
that way.
There's a note by the NVIDIA coders ...
*"Please note:* unfortunately, it has become difficult to keep track of
the pre-/post-installation steps required for [K]Ubuntu, and the above
instructions may be incomplete. If in doubt, it is recommended that you
use your distributor's NVIDIA Linux graphics driver packages,
exclusively." (http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490)
Even if I should use the onboard ATI again, I decided not to give back
the NVIDIA card, because I'm curious about this problem.
Btw. ASAP I'll try a packaged kernel + restricted-modules + nvidia-glx
or what ever is pre-build to use NVIDIA's proprietary driver.
Cheers!
Ralf
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