nvidia and severn2 -- an alternative

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Sun Oct 5 08:47:52 UTC 2003


On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Erik Englund wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 23:12, Elton Woo wrote:
> > I guess this is a less "painful" way of installing the driver. Would I
> > be correct in thinking, then, that I don't need to boot to runlevel 3,
> > bla, bla, but instead, simply re-edit my X86Config file as usual?
> > 
> > Thanks for this great tip!
> > 
> > Elton ;-)
> 
> Or you do it even less painful, go into runlevel 3 (comon it's not that
> bad, sooner or later you have to do it), then run
> "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run --add-this-kernel", it will create
> "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2-custom.run", run it and then edit
> xf86config as it tell you to do and everything works fine (at least it
> did for me!)

ok, i hadn't even seen that one.  the process is clearly evolving.

rday





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