nvidia drivers with kernel 2.6.6 howto (resolved)

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Originally Posted by Yakumo

mail you the full config.

i guess it has something to do with

CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y

or

CONFIG_X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG=y

?

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Current progress.

Downloaded kernel 2.6.6 from kernel org
installed kernel headers for kernel 2.6.6
make mrproper
copyed the config to the kernel and then run make
There was no questions asked?

where did you get your kernel source from?

Sincerely
Gozar

like i'd said in the first post, i ran kpackage and got the kernel and header 2.6.6 packages via that...

I'll try kernel.org..

ok, trying again with kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.6.tar.bz2

make hasn't asked any questions at all, so i'm hopefull this time :)

it will be a couple of hours at least till i know how it's gone though, it's only a lowly 128mb k62-400 ;o(

Success.
I'm typing this, running kernel 2.6.6 and using the nvidia module.

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Originally Posted by Gozar

Success.
I'm typing this, running kernel 2.6.6 and using the nvidia module.

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yup, same here =)
so after a weekend of recompiling, my only real problem was using kpackage to get the kernel source :(

oh well, at least i've learnt more this way, thanks loads for your help :)