nvidia driver kernel 2.6.9 667

[Per Bjornsson]

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

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Per Bjornsson <perbj at stanford.edu>
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University