Nvidia 2D/3D on 2.6.x (was Re: getting Nvidia 2D/3D to work (M.Hockings))

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, leon j. breedt wrote:

> # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run --extract-only
> # cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2/usr/src/nv

yup, so far, so good.

> now download the 2.6.x kernel patches for NVIDIA from www.minion.de:
> 
> 
> # wget http://www.minion.de/files/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4496-2.6.diff
> # patch -p1 < NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4496-2.6.diff
> # ln -s Makefile.kbuild Makefile

this has been my working M.O. for months now.  after that, all i
do is 

$ su
# make install
# exit
$

every time i move up to another bk kernel patch, i just pop back
into the nvidia directory and rerun "make install".  i haven't
had to change my XF86Config file for some time.

rday