Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

[pa3gcu <pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl>]

On Thursday 25 March 2004 21:06, pa3gcu wrote:
> After all if you read;
>  ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-5336/README
> You will see that my examples are written there, they are not there for the
> duration, they are there to help you.

I am glad i did not write this README, i have just discovered a somewhat BAD 
and rather misleading point, in that readme which i decided to study just to 
make sure i got my facts correct, i see the following under section;
sec-04 (if the file is in an editor its +/- line 772)

It says;
    cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/
    cp configs/kernel-2.4.18-i686-bigmem.config .config
    make mrproper oldconfig dep

It an example for redhat but the problems is universal as it concerns 
'make mrproper'

make mrproper removes .config meaning if one follows that example ALL will 
fail misarably as kernel defaults contained in the different kernel Config.in 
files will be used and i can assure you thats not much.

I will send a report to nvidia about it.

-- 
If the Linux community is a bunch of theives because they
try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows community
is built on organized crime.

Regards Richard
pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/



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