nvidia-source

[[-dYNAmaX111-]]

Can someone give me the link for the nvidia-source drivers because i dont like the way the nvidia wizard works.

[nabis]

As far as I know Nvidia haven't released the source for their drivers.

[[-dYNAmaX111-]]

hey, i had it on my last computer. They were the nvidia-kernel-source and nivida-glx.

[carbon-12]

nabis is right. Nvidia only offers binary drivers. Are you sure your not looking for your kernel-source?

[DSwain]

do you mean you want the nvidia-kernel? if you're using Gentoo emerge nvidia-glx and emerge nvidia-kernel and look at www.nvidia.com to download manually. There is supposidly no official release of the driver source.

[[-dYNAmaX111-]]

ok, i am after the nvidia-kernel-source or something like that so that when i go to compile kernel i do the following command

make-kpkg modules

so maybe it is the binarys

[[-dYNAmaX111-]]

when trying to compile nvidia-kernel-source (make-kpkg modules) i get this error


# Build a .changes file.
dpkg-genchanges -b -e"Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer <unknown@unconfigured.in.etc.kernel-pkg.conf>" -u"/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/../.." > /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/../../nvidia-kernel-2.6.5_1.0.5336-6+3_i386.changes
dpkg-genchanges: binary-only upload - not including any source code
debsign -e"Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer <unknown@unconfigured.in.etc.kernel-pkg.conf>" /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/../../nvidia-kernel-2.6.5_1.0.5336-6+3_i386.changes
signfile /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/../../nvidia-kernel-2.6.5_1.0.5336-6+3_i386.changes Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer <unknown@unconfigured.in.etc.kernel-pkg.conf>
gpg: skipped `Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer <unknown@unconfigured.in.etc.kernel-pkg.conf>': secret key not available
gpg: [stdin]: clearsign failed: secret key not available
debsign: gpg error occurred! Aborting....
make[1]: *** [kdist] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel'
Module /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel failed.
Hit return to Continue?

[bwkaz]

nVidia does not distribute tarballs of their drivers anymore.

You need to pass --extract-only to their .run file, which will create a directory tree with a top-level Makefile. usr/src/nv/ (from inside that directory) is the directory containing the kernel interface source code and the closed portion of the driver. Other directories under usr/ contain the other pieces of the driver (what used to be in the glx half).

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by bwkaz

You need to pass --extract-only to their .run file.

Beat me to it as I was just about to post the same.

That should be covered in the Nvidia README.