On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, F. Heitkamp wrote:

> I'm planning to have a go at debugging the 
> Nvidia driver. Could some more experienced
> folks tell me how to do a few things? I
> have a copy of the CVS sources and have located
> the driver source file.  If I want to print out 
> some variables, how do I get them in the (or a)
> log file.  Also how do I install the modified

  The ErrorF() function will print them to both the
console and the XFree86.log.X file.

> driver from my copy of the sources into the
> system X11R6 hierarchy without doing a make
> install. In other words, how to I make just
> the nv_drv.o module. 

   Assuming you've already built everything, all you
need to to is type "make" in the nv directory to
update nv_drv.o.  You can do "make install" from that
directory too and it will only install the updated
nv driver.

                        MArk.

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