nvidia driver kernel 2.6.9 667

[Kim Lux]

If you are implying that the Nvidia driver installs without source, you
are partially wrong in the general and totally wrong in this case.  The
Nvidia driver DOES install without kernel source code on common kernels,
ie ones that the Nvidia team has compiled a kernel for and included in
the install pack.

However, if you read the driver fine print, you will find that if your
kernel version isn't supported, you need to have kernel source installed
in order to build the kernel.  That is precisely what the Nvidia
"install" tool does. 

Thus, I DO need kernel source to get an Nvidia driver running with
2.6.9-1.667 as I highly doubt Nvidia had included a driver for this
kernel in their install pack. 




On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 15:21 -0800, Per Bjornsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 14:01, Kim Lux wrote:
> 
> > BTW: Where did you get kernel source from ?
> 
> As per the usual answer here, you really shouldn't need it just to build
> drivers. I think that Nvidia have picked up that clue by now, all even
> mildly sane distros have something useful under
> /lib/modules/<kernelversion>/build (be it a symlink or a real directory
> with the needed files).
> 
> If you actually want the source for building a custom kernel, that's a
> legitimate use of course, and then there's instructions for how to get
> the Fedora-patched source tree from the kernel SRPM in the distribution
> release notes.
> 
> > I've been running in VESA mode for 3 weeks now.
> 
> The nv driver, while not providing any 3D acceleration, should be _much_
> better than using a vesa driver in terms of usable video modes etc...
> You might want to use that as a backup instead.
> 
> Best regards,
> Per
> 
> -- 
> Per Bjornsson <perbj at stanford.edu>
> Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University
> 
-- 
Kim Lux (Mr.)  Diesel Research Inc