nvidia driver kernel 2.6.9 667

[Robert D. Arendt]

True, the NVidia script will check if pre-built modules exist.
But if they don't, it only needs the kernel source *headers*
provided with each kernel, as previously noted.
 From NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/makefile:
     KERNEL_SOURCES := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build
     KERNEL_HEADERS := $(KERNEL_SOURCES)/include

You can unpack the nvidia source using
   sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run -a -x
(note: -a accepts the license)
-Bob Arendt

Kim Lux wrote:
> 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
>>