Opened 19 years ago
Closed 19 years ago
#1747 closed enhancement (wontfix)
Kernel 2.6.16
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| Component: | Book | Version: | SVN |
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Description
2.6.16 kernel released
Change History (6)
comment:1 by , 19 years ago
comment:2 by , 19 years ago
Small downside, the Nvidia accelerated driver won't build. I've isolated it to a kernel header change. Should have a patch in a day or so. Not going to let a little thing like that hold me on 2.6.15.6.
comment:3 by , 19 years ago
How do you patch a binary driver? If you're thinking of patching the kernel headers to make them compatible with said binary driver please don't waste your time as I won't accept it. Complain to your binary vendor! If, on the other hand, the new version of the kernel breaks a package in LFS or BLFS and full source code is available then feel free to send patches this way, they'll be much appreciated.
comment:4 by , 19 years ago
Part is binary (an object module that goes in the kernel driver and an X extension library and an OpenGL library) and a small part is compiled on site to match the running kernel. The flaw is in the configure script and makefile for the kernel interface.
I won't be wasting my time in any case since I want it to work. The font rendering is much nicer with the accelerated driver and you get OpenGL.
comment:5 by , 19 years ago
Okay, it is successfully installed. I'll send this to NVIDIA. Patch (to conftest.sh) on request.
Along with 2.6.16, the note about GCC 2.95.3 can probably be removed. The Documentation for 2.6.16 now says GCC >= 3.2 is recommended.