-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Derek T. Murphy wrote: > On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, JT Moree wrote: > >>> I managed to upgrade the kernel this morning to 2.6.13.4 with >>> ndiswrapper 1.4 but even MORE EXCITING: >>> >>> I hacked together the latest nvidia driver 7676 for Debian AMD64!!!! >>> >>> I now have 3d accel in xinerama mode!!! (that means fonts are the >>> correct size too) > > > but, you forgot to include the URL where you documented the procedure > for the rest of us mere mortals.... ;-) Well, I'm not sure I can recreate it completely. the wiki seems to be offline or something.
I used sources from debian experimental. Put this in /etc/apt/sources.list deb-src http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian experimental non-free there are probably other mirrors that have it too but the amd64 mirror i use did not have 7676 so that's why i looked elsewhere. Then I went to a new directory (/usr/src/nvidia is a good one) and typed apt-get source nvidia-kernel-source it pulls down the source packages and extracts them into another directory. cd into that directory (/usr/src/nvidia/nvidia-graphics-drivers-1.0.7676) Now at this point the web told me to do a dependency step that I dont remmber bc it didnt do anything for me anyway. That may be because I have older versions of the driver installed and all the depencies are pretty much there except the ones being built right now. but i think the command did not even exist. type dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot this should build a set of packages. one is a source package that will put another source tar ball in /usr/src/. you will need to compile the other source tarball against the kernel dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-source_1.0.7676-1_amd64.deb cd /usr/src tar -xzvf /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz it puts files in /usr/src/modules/nvidia-????? cd linux (this is your kernel sources--you do have kernel sources right?) make-kpkg modules_image this puts a package in /usr/src called something like nvidia-kernel-2.6.13.4_1.0.7676-1+10.00.Custom_amd64.deb last you'll need the nvidia-kernel-common package which used to be tied to the driver version but as of 20050829 is based on the date. I had to google to find this package because I couldn't get it out of the repositories nvidia-kernel-common_20050829+1_all.deb you may want to put all of the debs created in this process in one directory. now install your packages dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-common_20050829+1_all.deb \ nvidia-glx_1.0.7676-1_amd64.deb \ nvidia-kernel-2.6.13.4_1.0.7676-1+10.00.Custom_amd64.deb the rest of the process is the same for all nvidia setups 1) try loading the driver manually with 'modprobe nvidia' 2) change x config to use nvidia for the driver (look for nv or vesa) if you want some sample configs check my page: http://www.pcxperience.com/WebGUI/index.pl/laptop/r3140us#video - -- JT Morée PC Xperience, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDWRGYucZ4lMT2d5IRAhzpAJ4kNFbR45++Au+gtizuHmEA9IIdAwCfVa+r orLtlJZyw9uAZrthnAhH/1k= =3oPD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
