Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Sorry, clicked "send" too soon. > > Am 14.03.2013 15:37, schrieb Tilman Schmidt: >> Am 14.03.2013 15:17, schrieb m.roth at 5-cent.us: >>> On a related note, does anyone have a link to a howto build the NVidia >>> proprietary driver on a kernel that's *not* running, so we could >>> prebuild >>> it before the reboot? I see there are options in the script, but no >>> examples. >> >> No link, but while I was still using the proprietary driver I did it >> like this: >> >> ${NVDRV}.run -sKk ${KERNELRELEASE} > > That was from a kernel install script that had previously set > ${KERNELRELEASE} to the name of the module directory and > ${NVDRV} to the base name of the nVidia installer. So the > actual command would look something like this: > > ~/Download/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-270.41.06.run -sKk 2.6.37.6-24-desktop > > HTH It does, indeed. Thanks a lot, Tillman, that's what I needed (I'll check to make sure it doesn't replace xorg.conf - a lot of us need the proprietary driver because we use two monitors, and *bleah* nouveau doesn't support twinview). mark