nvidia driver kernel 2.6.9 667

[Jim Martin]

Brian Callahan wrote:

>I just got it running with NO SOURCE installed. I used
>/lib/modules/2.6.9-667/build/include as the source code for my running
>kernel, editied the nv.c and then the module loads without any errors.
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>BC
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>>-------- Original Message --------
>>Subject: Re: nvidia driver kernel 2.6.9 667
>>From: "Kim Lux" <lux at diesel-research.com>
>>Date: Fri, November 05, 2004 8:36 pm
>>To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
>><fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
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>>If you are implying that the Nvidia driver installs without source, you
>>are partially wrong in the general and totally wrong in this case.  The
>>Nvidia driver DOES install without kernel source code on common kernels,
>>ie ones that the Nvidia team has compiled a kernel for and included in
>>the install pack.
>>
>>However, if you read the driver fine print, you will find that if your
>>kernel version isn't supported, you need to have kernel source installed
>>in order to build the kernel.  That is precisely what the Nvidia
>>"install" tool does. 
>>
>>Thus, I DO need kernel source to get an Nvidia driver running with
>>2.6.9-1.667 as I highly doubt Nvidia had included a driver for this
>>kernel in their install pack. 
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>>On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 15:21 -0800, Per Bjornsson wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 14:01, Kim Lux wrote:
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>>>>BTW: Where did you get kernel source from ?
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>>>As per the usual answer here, you really shouldn't need it just to build
>>>drivers. I think that Nvidia have picked up that clue by now, all even
>>>mildly sane distros have something useful under
>>>/lib/modules/<kernelversion>/build (be it a symlink or a real directory
>>>with the needed files).
>>>
>>>If you actually want the source for building a custom kernel, that's a
>>>legitimate use of course, and then there's instructions for how to get
>>>the Fedora-patched source tree from the kernel SRPM in the distribution
>>>release notes.
>>>
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>>>
>>>>I've been running in VESA mode for 3 weeks now.
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>>>The nv driver, while not providing any 3D acceleration, should be _much_
>>>better than using a vesa driver in terms of usable video modes etc...
>>>You might want to use that as a backup instead.
>>>
>>>Best regards,
>>>Per
>>>
>>>-- 
>>>Per Bjornsson <perbj at stanford.edu>
>>>Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>-- 
>>Kim Lux (Mr.)  Diesel Research Inc
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I just installed the new 6629 nvidia driver in FC3 and it worked fine, 
check www.nvidia.com for th update

BaVinic