[64studio-devel] nvidia binary driver

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi Matthew,

|--==> Matthew Yee-King writes:

  MY> Hello!
  MY> I am running a testing 64 studio kernel version 2.6.19-1-486 + other
  MY> bits on my i386 laptop and I could do with installing the nvidia binary
  MY> video driver. It seems that the nvidia installer does not like the
  MY> header files that come with this kernel (linux-headers.2.6.19 etc) and
  MY> the linux-source package for the 64studio patched kernel is not in the
  MY> apt repository and I can't find it on links I have found on this list.

What doesn't the nvidia installer like exactly? Please can you send
here the build log? If I a recall correctly there was somebody on this
list who reported he could successfully build the nvidia drivers for
i386..

  MY> Where can I get hold of this patched kernel source so I can build the
  MY> nvidia driver against it? Or should I just download the pure kernel then
  MY> add the patches that 64studio adds? Or should I not be using the nvidia
  MY> binary driver as its not recommended/ tested by 64studio people for
  MY> audio stability?

The kernel source should be not necessary when building the nvidia
driver, having it doesn't actually had any information to the
linux-headers.2.6.19 package, so if the build fails the problem must
be either in the kernel headers or in the nvidia source.

Ciao,

Free