[Sderby] my make won't make!

David Bottrill sderby at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sun Jul 13 17:55:00 2003


On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 17:51, Dave Williams wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> I've lurked on this list for some time and finally I have a question.
> 
> I've installed Suse 8.2 and in attempting to add the Nvidia driver I've
> followed the instructions but I get an error
> 
>   make: *** No rule to make target 'oldconfig'. Stop.
> 
> This is after issuing the command 'make oldconfig'
> 
> Any ideas why the make command doesn't work and how I can fix it?
> 
> Background: I'm the ICT coordinator at a large secondary school in Derby
> and I'm about to do my annual update of our 3 Suse based servers.
> 
> This does not mean that I understand everything about Linux so
> explanations need to be detailed.
> 

Dave,

You don't need to go to all that grief, providing you have an internet
connection to you box, just run the Yast Online update, there is an
update option to download the binary modules directly from Nvidia. No
compilation is necessary.

-- 
David Bottrill <david@bottrill.org>