ok, we (meaning mostly christian zander of nvidia) finally tracked down the weirdness i was having building an nvidia driver for my inspiron 8100 with a geforce2go. i had accidentally selected SMP for the kernel build, and the diff patch to the NVIDIA driver choked on that. so, there is a new diff file and here are the latest, greatest instructions for building an nvidia driver for 2.5.70 (in my case, the absolute latest 2.5.70-bk7, which is running flawlessly as we speak). assuming that you've already built your 2.5.70 kernel, and have rebooted and are running with it, first download: www.nvidia.com: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run www.minion.de: NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4363-2.5.diff (this is new) make sure you've shut down X and, back at the command line: # sh NVIDIA-Linux...run --extract-only (extract the source) change into this new source directory, then further into usr/src/nv, at which point you: 1) apply the patch from www.minion.de here 2) # ln -s Makefile.kbuild Makefile return to the top of the driver source tree, and # make install that should build a new driver, install it under the /lib/modules directory, and load it as well. at that point, startx comments? if this doesn't work, *i'd* certainly like to know. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Eno River Technologies Unix, Linux and Open Source training Waterloo, Ontario www.enoriver.com
