Umm 2.6 compiled but no Video Card Drivers

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth James McDonald:
> Folks,
> 
> I managed to get 2.6.0test2 kernel compiled and installed unfortunately
> my old kernel uses *.o.gz modules and the new modutils won't insert them
> so I am stuck with the 2.6 kernel for now.

The new module utilities don't handle compressed kernel modules.
You could always uncompress the old modules, but I'd be darn surprised
if you could use the _old_ modules with the _new_ kernel.

> I have network and all my major services that I need but I'm lacking a
> nv driver the NVIDIA site doesn't support 2.6 yet and I can find any
> mention of the nv driver that is usually in the 2.4.x kernels.
>
> Any Idea?

Don't use the NVIDIA driver. Use the one that ships with XFree86.
Or, Punt. 

Kurt
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