nvidia thoughts

[Marc Schwartz]

On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 12:34, Niels Weber wrote:
> Am So, den 26.10.2003 schrieb Erik Williamson um 19:24:
> > I haven't been following this thread, so I don't know if this has 
> > already been covered - but here's what I do:
> > 
> > IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1 ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run
> > 
> > found the info in /var/log/nvidia-installer.log
> This was mentioned by someone. I tried itand could compile though the
> resulting driver didn't seem to work. (Unsurprisingly, it's more of a
> surprise if it works I guess.)


Here is a sequence that I have found works every time:

# Remove this RPM if you want the GL screen savers
# to work. Do this before the next steps.
rpm -e --nodeps XFree86-Mesa-libGL

# Run this to create a custom version of the NVidia driver
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run --add-this-kernel

# The above will create a custom version for the kernel
# So now run this as a final step
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2-custom.run

Don't forget to make the required changes in XF86Config.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz