Guest anon Posted January 16, 2004 Report Share Posted January 16, 2004 If your planning on installing the 2.6 kernel and you need the nvidia drivers, i've put it on our d-load site. (courtesy of a link i stole from bvc) ftp://mandrake-forum.org/pub/Nvidia These are ready-to-go Nvidia installers for kernel 2.6 made by Christian Zander(http://minion.de/nvidia.html). No need to patch anything. Simply run them as you would the 2.4 version Nvidia installers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 17, 2004 Report Share Posted January 17, 2004 (edited) saw that did ya? ;) oh, cybrjackle found them. Edited January 17, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewski Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 Permission denied on the 2.6 installer; any chance of getting that fixed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 you don't need the hack anymore as nvidia released a 2.6 compat driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 He's right you know, they have. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 Hey guys , If I install the 2.6 kernel again and then the Nvidia 3d driver, will that driver work with the 2.4 kernel if I decide to boot up into that or will I have to go through the whole uninstall reinstall process everytime???? Thanks for any knowledge on this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Kenneth Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 Hey guys , If I install the 2.6 kernel again and then the Nvidia 3d driver, will that driver work with the 2.4 kernel if I decide to boot up into that or will I have to go through the whole uninstall reinstall process everytime???? Thanks for any knowledge on this one. I'm very sure the answer is no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 Hey guys , If I install the 2.6 kernel again and then the Nvidia 3d driver, will that driver work with the 2.4 kernel if I decide to boot up into that or will I have to go through the whole uninstall reinstall process everytime???? Thanks for any knowledge on this one. the nvidia driver that is 2.6 is backwards compatible w/ the 2.4 kernel, but as always if you change your running kernel then yes, you have to uninstall and reinstall for the running kernel. 1. Always boot to init 3 2. Keep the nvidia driver in roots home dir....at login>su, it'll always be there for quick easy access. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neutro Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 Can't you make it so that if a particular kernel is booted, then the associated nvidia driver is loaded? I mean, suppose that you already have compiled the nvidia driver for each of your kernels... And suppose you installed the driver for each of your kernel, aren't they stored in /lib/modules/kernelname? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 Can't you make it so that if a particular kernel is booted, then the associated nvidia driver is loaded? I mean, suppose that you already have compiled the nvidia driver for each of your kernels... And suppose you installed the driver for each of your kernel, aren't they stored in /lib/modules/kernelname? I think I said no already, not to mention it's about 100 other places on the board. I'm sure if you'd like to fix the code in the nvidia-installer to allow such a thing and give us access to download and use it we'd all love it. Let us know. It's no big deal. To uninstall and reinstall takes all of, 2 commands and 2 minutes. Hardly an inconvenience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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