Posted by NunYa Bidness on 10/25/05 13:45

I used to use the source rpms and do a:

rpmbuild -- -rebuild <filename>

To make my personalized rpms for my installs.

I wonder if this would not work with these older chips, and a
"install rpm with YAST" after rebuilding one from the source rpm.

These are the last drivers Nvidia released that were done in
separate module packages as opposed to their current method.

Just add http://download.nvidia.com/ in front of these tails. I cut
it to make it fit.

XFree86_40/1.0-4191/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.src.rpm
XFree86_40/1.0-4191/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm

Install the kernel module, then the GLX. Editing xorg.conf could be
required as well. There is a read me at:

http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-4191/README

It says xfree 4.0 or greater, so it should work.

I am not sure if an rpm rebuild form the source rpms would work.
They were made in the days of older compiler revisions, so there are
likely at least a few issues to consider.

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