NVIDIA driver with X86_64 kernal 2.6.15-1.1917

James C. Bevier jim at jbsys.com
Thu Feb 9 21:14:59 UTC 2006


The NVIDIA driver (version 8178) seems to work ok with the latest kernel. 
There are a few patches to make, but hay, this is a testing release.  Here 
is the skinny on getting it to run:

1.  Go here http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_1.0-8178.html 
to get the NVIDIA driver.
2.  Go here http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=62021 to get 
the "zander" patch U012206.
3.  On the target system, do the following:
    mkdir /usr/X11R6
    cd /usr/X11R6
    ln -s ../lib64 lib64
    cd lib64
    ln -s xorg/modules modules
4.  Now apply the patch from step 2 above following the instructions by 
"zander"
5.  Build the driver, change the xorg.conf file and you are good to go.

The step 3 changes are required because of changes to the xorg directory 
paths.  The nvidia configure program is still looking at the old structure. 
If you do not do step 3, you will get errors saying GLX libraries and NVIDIA 
driver could not be found.  I would think the x86 changes would be similar 
to the x86_64 mods.

Good Luck,

Jim 




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