I am confused. I want to install the NVIDA X drivers and GL libraries. I already have a non-CUDA enabled graphics card working in the system. I do not want to mess with that.
When I run the installer with --advanced-options I can see my first option should be
–no-kernel-module so everything about the CUDA enabled driver is installed except the kernel, which I do not want to install. I want the libraries, but not the kernel. I already have a working graphics kernel and I cannot have two working kernels in one computer. I leave the new one out and keep the old one in.
When running the installe r the second options should be:
–x-library-path=X-LIBRARY-PATH
which is installed to put these CUDA enabled NVIDIA X libraries into a new directory and path (so as to be used only on compiling) so as not to interfere with the working libraries on the current graphics card. I also must put this path into the makefile so that during compilation the makefile can find these new paths. How do I designate a path in Linux? The current one in the makefiles is:
X-LIBRARY-PATH
include …/…/common/common.mk
So I guess it must be something like that for X-LIBRARY-PATH, but of course not that exactly.
Now in setting the path for the NVIDIA GL libraries I need to use, I think:
–opengl-libdir=OPENGL-LIBDIR
and I must again specify a path (OPENGL-LIBDIR) and again use it in the makefiles for compling. This time if I read it correctly it must be a relative path. So what do I specify. Also, did I choose the right option?
The advanced option use the terms: libraries, modules and components interchangeably so I I am not sure sometimes what they are speaking about. I care about libraries here.
In the third option why change to a relative path suddenly? Is this a typo. It must be.
I know from DOS/Windows what an absolute and a relative path are, but do they apply here in LINUX? See the make path include …/…/common/common.mk.
I am using Ubuntu 8.04.
I know this sound a bit confusing, but I am lost here. Any help appreciated. I believe my first two options are correct; I am not sure about the third one with the OPENGL libraries.
Respectfully,
Newport_j
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