Compiling NVIDIA driver for -ntpl kernel

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 13:01, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> Elton Woo wrote:

> >
> >Kindly pardon my ignorance: But is the command *precisely*
> >"sh --add-this-kernel NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run"
> >OR " sh -add-{name of current kernel} etc..." I mean is "this-kernel"
> >a placeholder for the current kernel, or should I type that command
> >as shown?
> >  
> >
> It would be "sh NVIDIA.... --add..." of course. Think about it... bash 
> would try to run a non-existing
> '-add-this-kernel' file otherwise. That said, it this doesn't fix the 
> problem, which is that the Nvidia building
> procedure will complain when the system compiler doesn't match what the 
> kernel is built with. Do
> 'export CC=gcc32' to fix that.

Actually, in this case, 'export CC=gcc32' is *not* required. The
--add-this-kernel parameter handles that for you.

Cheers,

Chris

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