Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 31 August 2007 06:53:19 am Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Rajko M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-31-07 07:30]:
Although someone removed advice for;
cd /usr/src/linux
make oldconfig
make prepare
from article
http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA
in my experience, nvidia installer will not work without at least first 2
lines, ie, changing working directory to /usr/src/linux and than copy of
current configuration:
cd /usr/src/linux
make oldconfig
the only line that last version of nvidia installer didn't really needed
was 'make prepare' . I added that too, just to make sure that every
possible effort is made to have all bits ready.
The guy that removed above 3 commands from article is, so far I know, one
of kernel developers, and I don't go in discussion what is right, the
SUSE kernel or nvidia installer creators.
I have not ever found those steps necessary when installing NVidia's
package, just " sh ./NVIDIA-Linux....run -a" from runlevel 3, then
return to runlevel 5.
I know that when I started to compile nvidia drivers it was not necessary to
run any of above commands.
Than someone asked for advice, and I pointed to article.
Than he came again with error that I wasn't able to see before, so I checked,
and it worked for me, but my kernel sources are usually configured, as nvidia
is not only reason that I have them. After removing kernel sources,
installing and trying again I found out that it doesn't work as before and
put advice online.
That is whole story.
Occasionally the kernel changes also and there is a patch available from
the NVidia forum for 2.6.22 to build NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.11-pkg2
or pkg1 for x86.
"patch-change-recent-kernel-2.6.22-nvidia-100.14.11.txt".
Although NVidia are very responsive, they do make it a bit difficult
especially for inexperienced users to get 3D working. With ATI on the
other hand, I've only ever got 2 releases to build, along comes a kernel
or xorg change and it can be almost a year before they'll react, yet you
read how hard at work they are providing a Linux driver.
The situation is likely to persist as the drivers are proprietary and
they have development cycles that are exceedingly long. The kernel moves
at a fast pace to improve and as Linus said "Linux is Evolution, not
Intelligent Design", the latter hardly ever changes over a five year
life cycle, the Linux kernel changes daily.
Regards
Sid.
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