nvidia driver kernel 2.6.9 667

[Brian Callahan]

I just got it running with NO SOURCE installed. I used
/lib/modules/2.6.9-667/build/include as the source code for my running
kernel, editied the nv.c and then the module loads without any errors.

BC

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: nvidia driver kernel 2.6.9 667
> From: "Kim Lux" <lux at diesel-research.com>
> Date: Fri, November 05, 2004 8:36 pm
> To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
> <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> 
> 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
> 
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