You're right but if he/she has the same graphic card as mine s/he will only have a black screen. The biggest problem is compatibility.Quote:
Originally Posted by strawberry
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You're right but if he/she has the same graphic card as mine s/he will only have a black screen. The biggest problem is compatibility.Quote:
Originally Posted by strawberry
Just used your guide, and it worked great. No problems at all.
I'm happy it helped you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marshalus
Oh, and by the way s/he wanted to update her/his driver.Quote:
Originally Posted by strawberry
Alberto, nvnews.net is a fan/nVidia news site, not an "official" representation of nVidia. Just thought I'd point that out. Although it is said that there are 2 nVidia employees on the Unix team that frequently hangs out in that forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by tseliot
Thanks for the information. I talked to a developer of the drivers in there so I think it's quite a useful place to ask questions and to find solutions.Quote:
Originally Posted by DancingSun
Dancingsun, I've corrected the thread.
thanks all i got it working instead of ctrl - alt - f1 i did a reboot.Quote:
Originally Posted by tseliot
Tried the HOWTo but ran into problems early on with installer not finding gcc, I tried the suggestion early on :
But this doesn't have any effect I post the error log here I would appreciate any suggestions that might help:Code:CC=gcc-3.3
export CC
Code:option status:
license pre-accepted : false
update : false
force update : false
expert : false
uninstall : false
driver info : false
no precompiled interface: false
no ncurses color : false
query latest driver ver : false
OpenGL header files : true
no questions : false
silent : false
no backup : false
kernel module only : false
sanity : false
add this kernel : false
no runlevel check : false
no network : false
no ABI note : false
no RPMs : false
force tls : (not specified)
force compat32 tls : (not specified)
X install prefix : /usr/X11R6
OpenGL install prefix : /usr
compat32 install prefix : (not specified)
installer install prefix: /usr
utility install prefix : /usr
kernel name : (not specified)
kernel include path : (not specified)
kernel source path : (not specified)
kernel output path : (not specified)
kernel install path : (not specified)
proc mount point : /proc
ui : (not specified)
tmpdir : /tmp
ftp mirror : ftp://download.nvidia.com
RPM file list : (not specified)
ERROR: Unable to find the development tool `cc` in your path; please make sure
that you have the package 'gcc' installed. If gcc is installed on your
system, then please check that `cc` is in your PATH.
I did something a little different. To find out where 'gcc' is located I did:Quote:
Originally Posted by jodef
which returned:Code:$ which gcc
then I made a symbolic link to gcc called cc so programs trying to use 'cc' would get gcc, with this code:Code:/usr/bin/gcc
HTH,Code:$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc
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