NVidia & Kernel 2.5.x

[Ebola]

I have a kernel 2.5.44 and I can't compile the nvidia driver module. Does anybody know what I have to do :confused:

[bwkaz]

2.5 kernels are not supported by the nVidia Linux driver. Internal kernel interfaces are changing too much, because 2.5 is a development-series kernel, so nVidia wants to wait until 2.6, 3.0, or whatever Linus calls it comes out. They'll rewrite what they need to then.

However, there are patches floating around somewhere to get the NVIDIA_kernel to compile against various 2.5 kernels. I think the last one I saw was for 2.5.39, but if you know C (and the kernel), you should be able to take that and hack it to work with 2.5.44. If you don't know either the Linux kernel or C, maybe someone else will post with a patch they have that would work.