[Cialug] build nvidia module for new kernel

Aaron Porter atporter at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 18:43:44 CDT 2009


On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Mathew R. Phillips
<mathew.phillips at wartburg.edu> wrote:
> Is it possible to build the
> module for the newer kernel image when im booted into the old one so i can
> actually boot to the new one?

Looking at the "Advanced" help for the driver I have laying about
(./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.36-pkg1.run -A), it looks like you want to
pass it "--no-x-check --kernel-name=FOO" where FOO is the kernel
version directory you find in /lib/modules/


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