On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 23:48, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 04:10, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote: > > > Jesse Keating wrote: > > > > > > > > On 19 Nov 2002 07:14:13 -0500 > > > > nbecker@hns.com (Neal D. Becker) wrote: > > > > > > > > # > > > > # Which is, BTW, stupid. > > > > > > > > Hey, don't look at me (; Bitch at Nvidia for poorly written install > > > > scripts. > > > > > > Could you elaborate on where the scripts need improvement? > > They should produce loadable modules in /lib/modules/kernel-version (or > > somewhere) so that I can have different ones compiled for different > > kernels that I may be running, and not have to re-compile them every > > time I boot a different kernel. > > Err. "They" do. > > $ locate NVdriver > /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver > /lib/modules/2.4.18-10/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver > /lib/modules/2.4.18-4/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver > /lib/modules/2.4.18-5/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver > /lib/modules/2.4.18-17.7.x/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver > /lib/modules/2.4.18-18.7.x/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver How did you get the above for each kernel revision. Also when I see someone say something like "make sure you have updated the kernel-source" does that mean have the source loaded for the kernel that I want to compile against? If that is true, i do have the -18-18.8.0 kernel & its source loaded. Can someone please tell me what this "buildmeister" is? That seems to be the cause of all my trouble. > > So any kernel I boot has the NVdriver available. > > Which, I suppose, begs the question: "Is it my responsibility to build > modules for my system, or Red Hat's, or Nvidia's?" > > No one can anticipate what kernel I'll be using tomorrow. Should I decide to > roll my own, to whom should I look to provide me with a driver? > > > Maybe they produce modules already in > > some place I haven't discovered... Also, they could prompt for the > > kernel source to compile with, so that I could compile a new version in > > anticipation of booting another kernel. (Instead of booting it, having > > to stop X from retrying, rebuilding, and then restarting X...) > > This is addressed and available if you use the source from NVidia, and as I > stated earlier in this thread, I would consider it a shortcoming of rpm if you > cannot rebuild an rpm against a different kernel source. > > Also, I believe booting to level 5 should be discouraged. But that borders on > religion and should probably be ignored :-) > > Rinaldi > -- > By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, > and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. --Socrates -- lovswr1 <lovswr1@earthlink.net> -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
