On Sunday 22 January 2006 09:49 pm, Didier wrote: > Le Lundi 23 Janvier 2006 04:44, Dick Murphy a écrit : > > Thank you for your answer. I understand all but the warning "YOU MUST > > HAVE THE KERNEL SOURCE MERGED TO DO IT." As a Linux 'newbie' this is > > baffling, but I would like to learn how to do this. I downloaded the > > instructions from the Nvidia site, but again, that is difficult for the > > beginner. All help is appreciated. > > Take a look at your distribution package list if you have kernel-source > package or something like that and install it.
It will normally place the kernel source in /usr/src/linux-version-number but it will also normally create a link from /usr/src/linux to the actual directory were the kernel source code is. So if you have a /usr/src/linux directory then you are good to go. The nvidia installer will actually look for the linked directory (/usr/src/linux) not the actual one. You need to also make sure that this is EXACTLY the same version as the actual kernel you are running since on most distros you can have more than one version of kernel source code on your machine at any given time. An earlier post said that you have to get out of X on order to install the nvidia modules. I know that on my distro this is not the case. But my distro does not use the stock nvidia installer either. If you can install it while running X you will need to restart X for it to use the new video drivers. Also many distros will have a wrapper package for the nvidia installer. So you may want to check the package manager for your distro to see if it already has this as this may be simpler than using the nvidia installer. I don't know if it installs by default with the nvidia installer (on my distro it is separate) but there is an app named nvidia-settings that will let you make various adjustments to how your card is setup. I have found that Sync to VBlank reduces CPU load while running FG without any change in what I am seeing on screen. It will also allow you to monitor you GPU temperature and make many other adjustments. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
