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Old 03-20-2006, 07:03 AM   #1
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nvidia driver problem

I did my best to be the first guy on the block with Linux 2.6.16. However, I could not get the nvidia module to compile with it. I hadn't seen anyone else post with this...yet. Does anyone have any ideas?
 
Old 03-20-2006, 07:46 AM   #2
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Hi,
I'm using NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178 driver with zander's cumulative patch
(NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-8178-U012206.diff.txt ) on kernel-2.6.16.
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=62021
 
Old 03-20-2006, 08:08 AM   #3
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Thanks, JW. That seemed to do the trick.
 
Old 03-21-2006, 07:57 AM   #4
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Just so that people know - there's a similar patch for version 7676 of the nvidia drivers:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=66750
 
  


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