Re: nvidia and kernel-image-2.6.3-1-k7

Richard escribió:

>Hi
>You need to customize your kernel to do you must change it in the
>boot.img . You can found a good tutorial on knoopix.org . Don't forget
>to compile your hown cloop.o and to apply the knoppix_patch before make
>bzImage and after make menuconfig .
>to mount your boot.img :
>mount -t msdos boot.img <mount point> -o loop=/dev/loop0
>you can try it with vmware 
>Your kernel must be little ( not enought space on the boot.img to do a
>kernel more than 960 Ko )
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>Good luck richard From france ;) 
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>On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 10:27, Enrique Samson Jr. wrote:
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>>Hi.
>>I'm using kernel-image-2.6.3-1-k7 on a Knoppix-3.3 hd-install.  I'd like 
>>to install the nvidia drivers but there aren't binary packages available 
>>yet.  So, I think I will have to build it myself.   Will I have to build 
>>my custom kernel  to build nvidia driver as kernel module? 
>>http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html points 
>>to a guide that suggests just this. 
>>Please advice. Tnx.
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Can one update the kernel without compiling ?. It has less risks ( for 
the beginner). I prefer install an updated image ( perhaps a patch  
using Synaptic or apt-get install XXXXX ? ).

Regards.