michael hast wrote:
> Well, Gents,
>
> In the anticipation of building my faster, more powerful machine, I
> have been gathering up parts as I find deals I can't refuse. I've
> decided to go with AGP instead of PCI-E. On Newegg, I found a card by
> EVGA that looked like a winner. It's a Nvidia GeForce FX5500 256MB
> that turns out to be about $45.00 after s/h & rebates. Not bad. It
> even came with a DVI to VGA adapter and a cute little s-cable to hook
> it to the TV. I downloaded the current Linux drivers from Nvidia, but
> I can't figure out how to start the self-installer. I have gotten as
> far as getting out of X by way of Ctrl-Alt-F1, switching to runlevel 3
> with an init command and starting the installer. It tells me that it
> can't find the current kernel image source, so I got it with apt-get
> and tried again. Same thing. I restarted and tried again. Same
> thing. I'm running Debian 3.1 with kernel 2.6.8 and I don't know what
> I'm doing wrong. Please help me. I'm losing hair here. Thank you.
Try this:
# apt-get install kernel-headers-2.6.8
# ln -s kernel-headers-2.6.8 /usr/src/linux
The kernel-headers-2.6.8 package should contain the include files for
your installed standard Debian kernel. If you build your own kernel from
source with kpkg, you will end up with a kernel-headers package as well.
When installed, the headers will install into
/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8.
To make the nVidia installer happy, you can just make a "standard"
symlink it to /usr/src/linux for it to use.
-- - Ian C. Blenke <icblenke@nks.net>
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