Journal planckscale's Journal: nvidia drivers on linux
Only after finding the the instructions below, was I able to get the drivers running okay (with an additional twist at the end -see below). The thread can be found here: http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10329
but I'll go ahead and include them anyway in case someone else finds their way to my thread. Thanks kelmo!!
wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.5.tar.bz2
cp linux-2.6.5.tar.bz2
tar jxvf linux-2.6.5.tar.bz2
rm -f linux
ln -s linux-2.6.5 linux
cp
cd linux/include
ln -s asm-i386 asm
cd
make oldconfig
patch -p1
make include/linux/version.h (bug in cleaning process of linux-2.6.5)
cd
rm -f gcc (the kernel image was compiled with gcc-2.95 but symlink is to gcc-3.3)
ln -s gcc-2.95 gcc
cd
apt-get update
apt-get install nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-kernel-source
tar zxvf nvidia-kernel-source
cd modules/nvidia-kernel
debian/rules KSRC=/usr/src/linux-2.6.5 KVERS=2.6.5 kdist_image
cd
dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-2.6.5_1.0.5336-9_i386.deb
apt-get install nvidia-glx
cd
rm -f gcc
ln -s gcc-3.3 gcc
Thats the building and installation procedure done, now to let xserver know what driver to use. Edit
Drivers Section
Replace "nv" with "nvidia"
Modules Section
Remove or comment out lines including "dri" and "GLCore"
Ensure there is a line with Load "glx"
After running, this install, I tried to run
# kdm
but the server failed to start. The logs weren't specific, but it said "nvidia" not found, failed to start server.
I then went back to the console and ran
# export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-2.95
# sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run
Edited
The installer finished sucessfully and I finally now have the nvidia drivers running.Yay!! Still the Postal2 demo won't install, I get a greyed-out "Begin Install" button, but oh well I can try to find a different OpenGL game to try.
I got sick of the nvidia logo so I
added this line to the device section of XF86config-4:-
Option "NoLogo" "true"
