i have X running in full 1600x1200 res on my inspiron 8100, linux kernel 2.5.70-bk6, using nvidia geforce2go chip. how it was done (regardless of whether or not it's the recommended technique): 1) install 2.5.70 kernel source, patch with bk6 if you want (the bk6 part doesn't seem to be necessary but what the heck), make your basic bzImage/modules/modules_install and so on ... reboot to the new kernel and modules. (if you're not familiar with building a new kernel, sorry, i'm not getting into that here.) ok, and now that you've rebooted under the new 2.5.70 kernel ... 2) in 2.5.70 kernel source tree: # cd include/linux # ln -s ../config/modversions.h . don't ask why, the subsequent nvidia build wants to find that file 3) download: www.nvidia.com: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run www.minion.de: NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4363-2.5.diff 4) to extract the NVIDIA driver source tree, run: # sh NVIDIA...run --extract-only this, as it implies, just unloads the driver source directory without actually trying to build the module 5) go into driver source directory, then further into usr/src/nv and do the following two things: a) apply that .diff patch *here*, in the nv directory b) ln -s Makefile.nvidia Makefile despite what you read, do *not* use the Makefile.kbuild file, it caused problems. 6) move back up to the top level of the driver source tree and # ./nvidia-installer it should complete, complaining about having built a tainted module, but you expect that. 7) finally, load the new nvidia module with: # modprobe nvidia 8) # startx rday -- Robert P. J. Day Eno River Technologies Unix, Linux and Open Source training Waterloo, Ontario www.enoriver.com
