>> 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. > > No, that is yet another private "I have read some docs and show you how > to do it now" - howto document.
Ouch. Okay, I have to say that module-assistant is a great little tool, which I wasn't aware of before. It takes care of most of the installation drudgery that I spell out in my HOWTO. It should make everyone's life easier. But there's a little more in my HOWTO than that, about which installation method to use, which kernels are okay, and troubleshooting for that driver. The installation instructions are designed to be cut-and-paste easy for a newbie (tho not as easy as m-a, it's true), and they weren't so easy to throw together. Yes, the information is around in the docs, but not all in one place. It took me a while to put it all together, and an explicit start-to-finish set of instructions seems to be filling a need for some folks. Also back when I first wrote my HOWTO, there was quite a bit more to it, because the driver wouldn't work with kernel 2.6, so you had to grab some patches from minion.de, and I maintained another set of patches to allow make-kpkg to build it. But the driver works with kernel 2.6 now, so all of that went away a few months back. Anyway, thanks for writing module-assistant. It takes a lot of the drudgery out of building and installing those modules-- just what software should do for us. Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
