[mythtv-users] 2.6.15 and nvidia cards

[Michael Haan]

On 1/21/06, Matthew Geier <matthew at sleeper.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
> Michael Haan wrote:
> > On 1/21/06, *Brian Wood* <beww at beww.org <mailto:beww at beww.org>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     On Jan 21, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Michael Haan wrote:
> >
> >      > Quite simply, I tried to install the 2.6.15 kernel and, of
> course,
> >      > my nvidia graphics card broke.  Anyone doing this and, if so,
> how?
>
>
> > Right, but I went to get them and they aren't there.  The nvidia site
> > only has amd64, which is what I have, but I'm running in 32 bit mode.  I
> > got my original set from atrpms, but none are yet available there for my
> > setup.
>
>   The 'nvidia.ko' module has to be recompiled for every kernel change.
>
>   The 'easy way' is to just re-run the installer.
>
>   If you don't have that http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html has 'em.
>
>   The slightly more difficult way is to --extract-only the Nvidia
> package you got above, go to {nvidia package version}usr/src/nv and type
> 'make install'.
>   It will just compile and install the kernel module. (It does need to
> find the kernel headers though), instead of re-installing the entire kit.
>
>   I'm happly running the latest 8178 on 2.6.15.1
>
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That's where I went to get the drivers, but which are for x86?
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