On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Ricardo Campos wrote:
Am I gonna have to install a kernel from source whether I like it or not now, to get the module back? OR X? How could I find the headers for my existing kernel, if they're not where they're meant to be, so I can rebuild the NVIDIA kernel patch from source?
Erm, thinking about it my last reply didn't make it to clear.
NVdriver is a proprietary driver released by NVidia, you can get it at www.nvidia.com it is not part of the kernel or X-windows, when you build it, it will live in your kernel modules directory and will get loaded when you start X-windows. X-windows only has a non-accelerated driver for the NVidia cards, if you want to use this temporarily then you can change things as discussed in my last mail.
In my experience you should grab the latest kernel source from www.kernel.org and put it in /usr/src unpack it and create a symlink to a directory called linux if it doesn't already exist. Then put the NVidia drivers into /usr/src also. Now build your kernel when you have installed it and rebooted the machine you should login as root again and go to the NVidia directorys and run make and it should sort everything out for you.
This is how i have done things to get my Nvidia cards working in Linux, YMMV
Adam