nvidia and 2.5.70 kernel -- new and improved

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

  ok, we (meaning mostly christian zander of nvidia) finally tracked
down the weirdness i was having building an nvidia driver for my
inspiron 8100 with a geforce2go.  i had accidentally selected SMP
for the kernel build, and the diff patch to the NVIDIA driver 
choked on that.

  so, there is a new diff file and here are the latest, greatest
instructions for building an nvidia driver for 2.5.70 (in my case,
the absolute latest 2.5.70-bk7, which is running flawlessly as we
speak).

  assuming that you've already built your 2.5.70 kernel, and have
rebooted and are running with it, first download:

   www.nvidia.com:	NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run
   www.minion.de:	NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4363-2.5.diff   (this is new)

  make sure you've shut down X and, back at the command line:

  # sh NVIDIA-Linux...run --extract-only	(extract the source)

  change into this new source directory, then further into
usr/src/nv, at which point you:

  1) apply the patch from www.minion.de here
  2) # ln -s Makefile.kbuild Makefile

  return to the top of the driver source tree, and

  # make install

that should build a new driver, install it under the /lib/modules 
directory, and load it as well.  at that point,

  startx

  comments?  if this doesn't work, *i'd* certainly like to know.

rday

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Robert P. J. Day
Eno River Technologies
Unix, Linux and Open Source training
Waterloo, Ontario

www.enoriver.com