REALLY SLICK SCREENSAVERS

[Robert L Cochran]

There is a kernel interface and source code is provided for that. This
is taken from Nvidia's own installation instructions.

Source:

NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Driver Set README & Installation Guide

Last Updated: $Date: 2003/07/16 $
Most Recent Driver: 1.0-4496


KERNEL INTERFACES

The NVIDIA kernel module has a kernel interface layer which must be
compiled specifically for the configuration and version of the kernel
you are running.  NVIDIA distributes the source code to this kernel
interface layer, as well as a precompiled version for many of the kernels
distributed by some popular distributions.
  
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Bob


On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 20:54, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 02:45:38AM +0200, Peter Backlund wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 August 2003 02.38, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> > > Recompile the kernel to include the Nvidia drivers. This means means
> > > (drum roll, loud boos, catcalls) that once you do this in order to have
> > > the drivers, you have to recompile each new kernel update to include
> > > those same drivers.
> > You mean recompile the drivers, right?
> 
> You can't actually recompile the drivers; you don't have source code to
> them.
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