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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