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[Juuso Alasuutari <iuso AT sourcemage.org>]

Nvidia's new driver (1.0-8756) is a bitch:

- Nvidia doesn't use a source root dir Makefile anymore. The actual
  kernel module and a handful of other files are still installed by
  make install, but e.g. the lib files aren't. Our options are to either
  use their installer, or to replace it with bash code. The installer is
  a bit of a tricky deal and needs to be studied, but for now I've just
  replicated the old Makefile in INSTALL. Works for now, but probably
  not for many future versions.

- For some ungodly reason many files are installed in the running
  kernel tree instead of the sorcery kernel tree. I've tried everything:
  variables, sediting the hell out of all possible files to replace
  uname -r, invoking unamechange. Would someone help me find out what's
  going on? Here's the part of my install log which demonstrates
  the problem:

/lib/modules/2.6.16-ck3/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.16-ck3/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.16-ck3/modules.alias
/lib/modules/2.6.16-ck3/modules.ccwmap
/lib/modules/2.6.16-ck3/modules.dep
/lib/modules/2.6.16-ck3/modules.ieee1394map
/lib/modules/2.6.16-ck3/modules.inputmap
/lib/modules/2.6.16-ck3/modules.isapnpmap
/lib/modules/2.6.16-ck3/modules.ofmap
/lib/modules/2.6.16-ck3/modules.pcimap
/lib/modules/2.6.16-ck3/modules.seriomap
/lib/modules/2.6.16-ck3/modules.symbols
/lib/modules/2.6.16-ck3/modules.usbmap
/lib/modules/2.6.16-ck4/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko

I've updated the nvidia_driver spell to 1.0-8756, and it works, save for the 
mentioned issues. I haven't uploaded it to z-rejected because I don't want to 
replace a working spell with a project just for the sake of bleeding edge. I 
would however be glad to send it to anyone who has interest in this matter.

iuso