Compiling NVIDIA driver for -ntpl kernel

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 11:46, 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?

Just in case it hasn't been answered by someone else by now, the answer
is to type this command exactly:

./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run --add-this-kernel

This is assuming you have that particular build of the NVidia driver. It
will create a custom install file called:

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2-custom.run

You can then install per regular NVidia instructions with that custom
file.

Cheers,

Chris

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