Discussion of Sorcery related topics

[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 09:56, Hamish Greig wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 09:34, Robin Sheat wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:24:29PM +0100, Mads Laursen wrote:
> > > the right headers should be possible. Replacing the binaries on disk
> > > should not be a problem, this is not Windows after all ;-)
> > >
> > > But without trying it's just guessing.
> >
> > That is the way it used to work, until NVidia changed their driver
> > structure. Restart X and pow! new drivers :)
>
> Because I have an nvidia card and because I spend so much time installing
> xfree86-* spells and kernels I used to have a custom build for
> NVIDIA_driver. it altered the makefile to not run the rmmod-check during
> the install stage. updating to 2.6 broke this for me, but aside from that
> it was a nasty hack and not something I would support for all our users. it
> is included here for anyones interest, but I don't know if it still works
> on the latest release Hamish
>
> ps there is an easter egg in this also, don't tell NVIDIA please :)

rmmod-check seems to have become rmmod-sanity-check this BUILD should work 
for 
2.4 kernels, for 2.6 kernels you'll get a FATAL because the module is already 
in the kernel. The Makefile tries to modprobe the new module :( this too 
could be hacked but someone else can finish this off
Hamish
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(

  sh $SOURCE_CACHE/$SOURCE --extract-only &&
  cd $SOURCE_DIRECTORY/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-$VERSION/usr/src/nv                 &&
  ### We look at the Makefile in the kernel sources for the Version Number!
  KPATCHLEVEL=$(head -n 2 /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/Makefile | tail -n 1 
| sed 's/.*= //')

  if [[ $KPATCHLEVEL == 5 ]]  || [[ $KPATCHLEVEL == 6 ]]
  then
    patch -p1 < $SOURCE_CACHE/$SOURCE2   &&

    ln  -s  Makefile.kbuild Makefile
  fi                                                        &&
  ### please no-one remove this
  cd $SOURCE_DIRECTORY/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-$VERSION            &&
  
  if [[ $VIA4X == "y" ]]; then sedit "s/NVreg_EnableVia4x 
=0;/NVreg_EnableVia4x = 1;/" usr/src/nv/os-registry.c; fi &&

  if [[ $ALiAGP == "y" ]]; then sedit "s/NVreg_EnableALiAGP = 
0;/NVreg_EnableALiAGP = 1;/" usr/src/nv/os-registry.c; fi &&

  if [[ $AGPSBA == "y" ]]; then sedit "s/NVreg_EnableAGPSBA = 
0;/NVreg_EnableAGPSBA = 1;/" usr/src/nv/os-registry.c; fi &&

  if [[ $AGPFW == "y" ]]; then sedit "s/NVreg_EnableAGPFW = 
0;/NVreg_EnableAGPFW = 1;/" usr/src/nv/os-registry.c; fi &&

  echo -n "MODULE_LICENSE(\"GPL\");" >> 
$SOURCE_DIRECTORY/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-$VERSION/usr/src/nv/nv.c &&
  sedit "s/ rmmod-sanity-check//" 
$SOURCE_DIRECTORY/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-$VERSION/usr/src/nv/Makefile   &&
  prepare_install                                           &&
  mkdir -p ${INSTALL_ROOT}/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers    &&
  mkdir -p ${INSTALL_ROOT}/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions &&
  export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1                               &&
  make install

) > $C_FIFO 2>&1