From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pa3gcu Subject: Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:49:23 +0100 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200403231549.23136.pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> References: Reply-To: pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Karthik , Karthik Vishwanath , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 23 March 2004 05:44, Karthik Vishwanath wrote: > Which driver(s) must I get from nvidia? I can get to their download site > (nvidia.com/object/linux.html), but am unsure what I need to download. > > I got the latest version which gives me a file: > NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run. I have this one on a slackware 9 system using a TI4200 and on suse 9 with a FX5200 works fine. > # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run > > quits with a series of errors saying that "no matching precompiled kernel > interface was found", followed by "unable to find your kernel source > tree". > > Now, I think a part of the problem here is that I do not have a matching > kernel that is running with a kernel source. 'uname -r ' gives 2.4.18-k7. > I can find (and have installed) a kernel-source-2.4.18 package, but not a > kernel-source-2.4.18-k7 package. How to fix it? If you installed the source for 2.4.18 then you should be able to do the following and get away with it; cd /usr/src/linux make mrproper cp /boot/config-xx .config edit Makefile change line 4 from EXTRAVERSION = To EXTRAVERSION = -k7 save file; make oldconfig make dep Thats it, now rerun sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run Note; i am presuming that debian has the default kernel config in /boot, most systems do store it there for your convinance. -- If the Linux community is a bunch of theives because they try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows community is built on organized crime. Regards Richard pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs