Re: nvidia and 2.5.70 kernel

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday mindspring com>]

On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Christian Zander wrote:

> Makefile.kbuild is the preferred Makefile for Linux 2.5, but doesn't
> integrate well with the NVIDIA installer. Users will want to extract
> and patch the .run file and build/install the module using the plain
> Makefile(s) instead (make in the top-level NVIDIA directory). Those
> who have previously installed the NVIDIA driver and just wish to get
> it running on Linux 2.5 can build/install the 2.5 module from src/nv
> using 'make', assuming that Makefile.kbuild was previously selected.
> NVIDIA also still provides the NVIDIA_kernel archives (afaik), which
> can be downloaded instead of the .run file.

ok, point taken, thanks.  and doesn't *this* belong in a RH FAQ
somewhere?  :-)

rday

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