Posts Tagged ‘Kernel’

Kernel Fun – nvidia Driver

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

So, I decided to update the kernel on my laptop today to the latest and greatest (2.6.27.2 at the time of this posting).  Unfortunately, it has a nvidia card on it, and the nvidia drivers you can get off the repositories don’t work.

So, what did I do?  Of course, I did what every programmer does best.  I dived into linux header files and the nvidia source and changed a few things around.  My result was a working nvidia for 2.6.27.x

Here’s the link to the source.  Should work on all 2.6.27.x
http://www.redgalaxy.net/src/nv.tar.bz2

Happy compiling