[lug] NVIDIA GeForce2 Go Driver & KRUD (Was Dell Utility Partition)

[Hugh Brown]

It sounds like we have similar laptops.  

I had to do this:

rpm -ivh kernel-source-<version number of installed kernel>.rpm
cd /usr/src/
ln -s linux-2.4 linux # nvidia wants it

rpm --rebuild  NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2880.src.rpm
rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2880.i386.rpm

for kicks I also do a rebuild of the NVIDIA_GLX src rpm too.

each time I upgrade the kernel, I have to redo the kernel build and
reinstall the NVIDIA_kernel rpm.

If you want a copy of my XF86Config-4, I'd be happy to send it to you
off list.

Hugh


On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 15:59, J. Wayde Allen wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, j davis wrote:
> 
> > Did you edit out the dri entries there is one at top and one at the very
> > bottom....also dont forget to change nv to nivida. those 3 edits and
> > adding the nvidia kernel and glx gets my card kickin ass!
> 
> The problem I seem to be having is getting the nvidia kernel module to
> load.  It looks to me like I need to grab a copy of the kernel source and
> then try compiling the nvidia kernel module again.  Otherwise I keep
> getting version mismatch errors.
> 
> Some of this could be my unfamiliarity with the Red Hat package manager.  
> I'm primarily a Debian user.  Is there anything somewhat akin to Debian's
> dselect utility on the Red Hat system?  Debian's dselect gives me a way to
> see what I have available from my source archives, as well as what I have
> installed, what version, and a nice text description of each package and
> its dependencies.  Using the rpm command seems fairly equivalent to using
> the lower level Debian dpkg or apt-get commands.  I think that some of
> what Sean's work with krudfind and krud2date probably deals with some of
> these issues.
> 
> > The nv driver totally craps out if you try any 3d stuff...for me
> > anyway.  I think it would be a shame for anyone with a nvidia chipset
> > not to use the nvidia driver.
> 
> I'm not finished tinkering quite yet ...
> 
> - Wayde
>   (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)
> 
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