On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, michael hast wrote:
> steve szmidt wrote:
>> On Tuesday 17 April 2007 04:19, Eben King wrote:
>>
>>> NFW I'm going to upgrade everything because a video driver acts up.
>>> There must be a magic incantation to say to make "nvidia" install. I
>>> mean, AFAiK I'm doing everything right for it. I had it before I
>>> upgraded the kernel...
>>
>> I've never upgraded everything to update the nvidia driver. The only
>> problems has been to ensure kernel source existed for the driver recompile.
>>
>> With the latest generation of driver it is even easier to upgrade than
>> ever. Try contacting nVidia and see what they say.
I guess I'll have to do that.
> Tell you the truth, I haven't been paying very close attention to this
> thread, so I feel like I'm coming in half way through it. Are you using the
> binary driver?
Yes.
> If so, nvidia warns that you may have to tweak your installation of the
> drivers on a kernel upgrade.
I read about a change that had to be made for 2.6.19 -- NVIDIA*.run
--extract-only, change the name of a .h file in the source then install.
Thinking it was the same for 2.6.20, I tried it but it didn't work either.
Maybe they changed it again. Cryin' shame they haven't eliminated manual
tweaking necessity.
> I forget what they call it, but the module or whatever it is that links
> the driver to the kernel headers or whatever needs to match the version of
> the kernel and the version of the driver.
Yeah. In the past the .run file has had to compile one just for me.
> Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the binary package?
What do you mean "uninstall"? I just downloaded it from nvidia.com .
> As long as you have the correct kernel headers and source installed,
Source is from kernel.org, kernel's from that source.
> the nvidia driver installer should be able to find what it needs to
> compile everything else.
I thought so too.
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