Changing Nvidia from 5336 to 6106

[MillTek]

Hi,
I compiled my Kernel to accomodate the 5336 Nvidia driver some time ago. I am wondering if the new one (6106) will install without recompiling using NVidia's installer/ Does anyone have any ideas??


Jim

[shah]

Yes you can. Just run ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6106.run because the header is there...but you need to uninstall the driver first.
But you can do the easiest way....jus run command as SU:
nvidia-installer --update.[/b]

[kelmo]

I you compiled your kernel, and NVIDIA as a module package you just have to use apt to fetch the new ones a compile a new module like so:-

apt-get -t unstable install nvidia-source nvidia-kernel-common
compile & install modules as before (make-kpkg modules_image)
apt-get -t unstable nvidia-glx

[MillTek]

Kelmo,
I used a procedure you posted to do the compile that installed 5336. Does that mean it is compiled as modules? (I don't understand the module stuff yet)?

Does Shah's proposed method presume a different type of compile or build method (for the 5336 install)?

Jim

[shah]

MillTek

When we compile a kernel for installing nvidia driver, we don't actually going to use the kernel we compiled. We only going to use the kernel header for nvidia installer to recognize. So the modules thing, doesn't really important.

Read my post, you may get the idea.
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11619&highlight=nvidia