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Silent1
05-31-2004, 01:11 PM
title pretty much says it all. But i can't seem to compile the new nvidia drivers with the 2.6.6 kernel.
ameoba
05-31-2004, 03:32 PM
Vanilla, hand-compiled kenel or some distro's kernel with custom patches?
Silent1
05-31-2004, 04:58 PM
hand compiled. I'm now running 2.6.4 and it runs perfectly with the nvidia drivers but the compiled kernel i have for 2.6.6, nvidia won't compile sucessfully with them. I don't have the error messages offhand since i have to reboot to get them. But i'll write them down and post them later. Thanks.
Silent1
05-31-2004, 06:40 PM
did a bit of searching and found a patch that makes the nvidia module install correctly.
http://www.minion.de/
Josh_B
06-01-2004, 05:28 PM
As the previous poster mentioned, if you've compiled your own 2.6.x kernel, use the minion.de drivers. They will even allow you to get around a custom patched kernel! ;)
jpmkm
06-01-2004, 06:00 PM
Isn't the patch only needed for 2.6.5 and up? I was using the nvidia driver with 2.6.3 just fine but then I upgraded to 2.6.6 and when I went to reinstall the nvidia driver it complained and wouldn't go. If I could get the tv out working on my damn radeon 8500le then I wouldn't even need to mess with the nvidia card.
KroniX
06-01-2004, 07:46 PM
It worked fine for me in debian, I'm not positive I think debian might patch up whatever nvidia driver they package.