25 Jun
2008
25 Jun
'08
1:19 p.m.
"Jenny Hopkins" hopkins.jenny@gmail.com wrote:
Found I probably needed nvidia driver rather than nv.
[...]
Gave up, got the proprietary driver from nvidia and had to build that, using export CC=gcc-4.1 to get compiler version same as kernel build.
That's a disappointing loss of freedom to fix - how did you find you needed the nvidia driver rather than nv?
Remember, binary drivers make the baby Jes^W^Wkernel developers sad! A position statement on closed-source kernel modules [LWN.net]: http://lwn.net/Articles/287056/
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