Compiling NVIDIA driver for -ntpl kernel
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
teg at pvv.org
Thu Oct 23 19:20:50 UTC 2003
Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> Elton Woo wrote:
>
>> On October 23, 2003 08:21 am, Christopher A. Williams , <"Christopher
>> A. Williams" <chrisw01 at privatei.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Yet another solution is to run the original NVidia installer program
>>> with the parameter --add-this-kernel which will create a customized
>>> version of the installer. Then use that one to install the drivers.
>>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
Or rather, use the option itself. Which wouldn't make more sense, bash
has no such option.
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