Re: 2.6 and nvidia

[hanasaki]

My nvidia is due in the mail soon.  The nvidia packages from apt-cache 
search seem to depend on the 2.4 kernels.  Could you walk me through the 
steps to get get the nvidia drivers built/installed on kernel 2.6.x?  I 
have built the kernel with make-kpkg.  Also, Any specific options to 
choose/not choose in the kernel .config?

thanks

Were there any package conflicts?

I had an ati card and after using alien to convert their .rpm to a .deb 
it installed fine but created mesa depend conflicts.  Wondering if the 
same happens on nvidia?

Kevin Mark wrote:
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 12:46:38AM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:

As a warning ... I was getting ready to upgrade my kernel to 2.6. I
downloaded the new nvidia package. I was following instructions from
/usr/share/doc without really thinking and did a "make" on the modules
package. Within seconds I got dumped out of X and have been unable to
start it ever since. The error messages I'm getting have to do with the
module versions not matching the kernel versions.
I have no idea how to get X back under my old kernel, and the new one
isn't ready to be used yet (basically nothing's working yet).
So as a warning....do NOT mess around with the latest nvidia packages 
until you know for sure that the rest of the 2.6 kernel is going to work. :(

emma

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Emma Jane Hogbin
Hi Emma,
are you referring to 'make'ing X or the kernel?
couldnt you just reinstall what was overriten?
or remove the X packages and install them?
-Kev


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