Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: load 2.4.x binary only module on 2.6 | Date | Thu, 6 Nov 2003 15:05:28 -0500 |
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On Thursday 06 November 2003 14:52, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: >On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 14:33:12 EST, Gene Heskett said: >> I've got minions 4496 here, so how did you make it work? I had to >> revert to the kernel driver nv which doesn't do as much, but is >> easily 100000% more stable. > >Got NVidia's tarball, did the --extract-only thing, applied >the Minion patch, 'cp Makefile.kbuild Makefile', reboot to the >-mm2 kernel, 'cd src/NVdia<mumble>/usr/src/nv && make'. > >Actually, I've just had to do the 'make' for the last umpteen kernel >revs - the Makefile dates back to Aug 4, and Sep 5 I had to apply a >2-line fix to nv-linux.h. > >Not sure if the nv driver could be more stable - the last time I was >able to tickle the NVidia code into crashing either XFree86 or the > kernel was back in the 2.5.6* time frame.
Very very easily done. ctrl-alt-f2 to a shell. It may, or may not work. crtl-alt-f7 back to X=locked up "tighter than Ft Knox" computer, reset button or power button is all that works.
-- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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