Thanks a lot for your help. One more question: When I next upgrade my kernel, will this require me to recompile the nvidia driver?
As far as I know, yes you will
Iv'e always had to do it
OK - 1.) get source from kernel.org
OK - 2.) extract it in /usr/src
No - 3.) ln -s linux-2.6.4 linux (this step is debateable whither is necassary or not)
OK - 4.) run the NVidia installer (say yes compile me one when it says it can't find any on nvidia's site)
OK - 5.) update XF86Config-4
OK - 6.) add nvidia to the modules like of rc.confJust wanted to debate. If you fetched the kernel source, you should have a look inside its readme. There is a strong warning not to link your source to linux. Instead, give your nvidia installer the option where to find the source.
nvinstaller --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux-2.6.4/
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. Will not do that any more
-wd
Just wanted to debate. If you fetched the kernel source, you should have a look inside its readme. There is a strong warning not to link your source to linux. Instead, give your nvidia installer the option where to find the source.
nvinstaller --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux-2.6.4/
1.) get source from kernel.org
2.) extract it in /usr/src
3.) ln -s linux-2.6.4 linux (this step is debateable whither is necassary or not)
4.) run the NVidia installer (say yes compile me one when it says it can't find any on nvidia's site)
5.) update XF86Config-4
6.) add nvidia to the modules like of rc.conf
and tada! but i'm lucky like that
-wd
Also, unless I'm very much mistaken (which is possible), the Nvidia installer compiles a module using the kernel sources. So if someone could provide me with the exact /usr/src/linux-2.6.4 that was used to compile the 2.6.4 package i got via pacman, then I could build the module without building the kernel. Right?
]]>The only way I could get Nvidia driver to work was to use ABS to compile kernel then instaling nvidia .....
using pacman to load kernel then drivers does not work....as nvidia compiles drivers into kernel..
its a pain but not that difficult (when someone s31) shows you how
As for building into Arch kernel well everyone does not use Nvidia & its just more flexible that way....they did have drivers in pacman at one time but keeping them up to date was a real problem...
HTH
Mr Green
]]>As a side curiousity, if I do indeed need to rebuild the kernel, can anyone explain why I need to? It seems to me that if whoever compiled it in the first place included the sources they used, and if they made a copy available, it would avoid a lot of hassle. Am I wrong?
Thanks in advance.
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