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?

oh, wait a sec, i see what you mean.  you *do* have to get out of X
for this to work, as the "make install" does try to remove and 
reload the nvidia module.  so, no, you can't do this from X.  is
that what you were asking?

rday