nvidia and severn2 -- an alternative

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Elton Woo wrote:

> On October 4, 2003 04:03 pm, Robert P. J. Day <"Robert P. J. Day" 
> <rpjday at mindspring.com>> wrote:
> >   rather than messing with CC=gcc32 or IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH, here's an
> > alternative way of installing your nvidia drivers (at least, it works for
> > me, so i'm open to corrections/clarifications).
> >
> >   download the latest nvidia driver from www.nvidia.com,
> > NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run.  don't try to install it, just extract
> > it into a directory with:
> >
> >   $ sh NV...run --extract-only
> >
> > now, as root, "cd" into that directory and just run "make install".  that
> > should build the driver and install it. because you're actually compiling
> > the driver, you're pretty likely to not have to worry about any compiler

> > mismatches.

> I guess this is a less "painful" way of installing the driver. Would I
> be correct in thinking, then, that I don't need to boot to runlevel 3,
> bla, bla, but instead, simply re-edit my X86Config file as usual?
> 
> Thanks for this great tip!

yes, i guess i should have mentioned that i have the same XF86Config
file i've had for a while.  and when i do a complete re-install,
i just move that file to a safe place, and copy it back after the
install.

it's not so much less painful as that it works for the 2.6.0 kernel
once you apply the patch.

rday