On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 16:34 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> Oh, and by the way...
>
> 1) one cannot be running X when one builds the nvidia driver.
> (Previously someone told me I didn't have to build nvidia drivers from
> the command line, I could run the nvidia driver included with the kernel
> and then I could build them from my X session. That is wrong.)
Actually I think you can't build the nvidia driver from X if you're
trying to build for the currently running kernel, building for a
different kernel is no problem in X. Whenever I install a new kernel I
build the driver for that kernel before I reboot:
# ./NVIDIA-<blah blah>-pkg1 -K -a -k '2.6.18-1.3200.fc6'
Works like a charm from Gnome Terminal.
Brian
