From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 08:28:23 -0800 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20040325082305.01f8d7d0@celine> References: <200403251715.12023.pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200403251715.12023.pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> References: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org At 05:15 PM 3/25/2004 +0100, pa3gcu wrote: >On Thursday 25 March 2004 15:46, Karthik Vishwanath wrote: > > I installed the 2.4.18 source by 'apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18', > > extracted the source and made a symbolic /usr/src/linux -> > > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/, and followed all the instructions below > > as is. > > > > sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run quits with an error. > > > > # cat /var/log/nvidia-installer.log | grep ^ERROR > > ERROR: Unable to determine the NVIDIA kernel module filename. > > >No No No, /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/ is NOT what you want i can assure >you. > >When you untarred the source a directory called linux-2.4.18 should have been >created you then need to create a symlink to "linux" for my example >underneat, so lets start again. Actually, Richard, this is just a Debian naming convention that you are unfamiliar with. Here, for example, is a relevant portion of my /usr/src directory: autovcr@kuryakin:~$ ls -l /usr/src [...] drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Mar 4 10:59 kernel-source-2.4.19 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25652223 Dec 5 15:59 kernel-source-2.4.19.tar.bz2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 20 Aug 19 2002 linux -> kernel-source-2.4.19 In Debian when you un'tar (for example) kernel-source-2.4.19.tar.bz2 you get a directory tree named kernel-source-2.4.19, NOT one named linux-2.4.19. I'm so used to this convention that I'd quite forgotten that other distros don't follow it. - 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