On 2/12/06, michael hast <evylrobot19@cox.net> 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.
If you're using a debian standard kernel, you can use the nvidia-glx
and associated packages from apt. The executable packages from
nvidia.com are more for roll-your-owners.
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