From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: joy Subject: Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 22:49:45 +0530 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <406071B1.7030305@sancharnet.in> References: <405FAC4A.1000609@sancharnet.in> <5.1.0.14.1.20040322210149.01fdd960@celine> Reply-To: gracecott@sancharnet.in Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Ray Olszewski wrote: > Short answer: to use the nVidia proprietary X driver, you need on your > system the kernel source that matches your installed kernel. This is > so because part of what the nVidia package provides is a customized > framebuffer in the form of a kernel module called "nvidia". > > How did you install the kernel-source-2.4.18 package you mention? If > you just did the apt-get (or dselect, if you do it that way) part, you > did not un'tar the source tree. You just have a package called > something like /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 . You need to do > two things for the nvidia installer to run properly: > > 1. un'tar the source in the usual way. > 2. make the customary symlink: > ln -s /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 linux > > Then the nvidia installer should succeed. > > (NOTE: The one thing I cannot vouch for is that kernel-source-2.4.18 > and kernel-image-2.4.18-k7 packages actually match up. I always > compile my own kernels after installing, so I have no actual > experience with using the Debian kernel-image-* packages.) yup, I suggest the same. get your own kernel sources and compile them. if you get a 2.6 series kernel, you need to upgrade a few packages on the system( the version numbr of the software required is found in the sources in /Documentation/Changes.I suggest you get a 2.6, it's worth the download and you will really feel the difference and also the 5336 version has support for the 2.6 series and I see no reason you shuld not take advantage of this. - 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