On Monday 24 November 2003 20:33, Albrecht wrote: > Hey, > > I have problems getting 9.2 to work with my NVIDIA FX56000 video card > and samsung 213T LCD monitor. > > I tried drakconf and xf86cfg and xf86config, but I am not that > experienced w/ the XFree setup. In my desparation I was attempting to > install the latest nvidia drivers but ran into problems getting the > kernel sources installed. I got the proper source rpm and ran "rpm > -Uvh kernel...src.rpm" but it seems that the code is not extracted > into the /usr/src/linux structure but rather only a couple of files > (tar.bz2 files, a header and two awk files) (I believe it was in > /usr/src/.../SOURCES/).
You don't need the src.rpm but the kernel-source rpm corresponding to the running kernel (uname -r). > Now first my question is, which nvidia driver is included in 9.2? > Does it even make sense to try this? > Second, has anybody gotten this combination -- or each component > individually? Third, how do I get the kernel source from the tar form > into compilable form in /usr/src/linux. > > Thanks > Albrecht HTH, -Frans
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