Eben King wrote:
> I get a fatal error when I try to install the Nvidia driver. It says:
>
> ERROR: Unable to determine the version of the kernel sources located in
> '/lib/modules/2.6.20.6/source'.
>
> I got the source from kernel.org and used it to compile the running
> kernel. /lib/modules/2.6.20.6/source points to /usr/src/linux-2.6.20.6
> which contains:
>
> total 9.5M
> 4.0K arch/ 8.0K fs/ 88K MAINTAINERS 4.0K scripts/
> 4.0K block/ 4.0K include/ 56K Makefile 4.0K security/
> 20K COPYING 4.0K init/ 4.0K mm/ 4.0K sound/
> 96K CREDITS 4.0K ipc/ 176K Module.symvers 1.1M System.map
> 4.0K crypto/ 4.0K Kbuild 4.0K net/ 4.0K usr/
> 4.0K Documentation/ 4.0K kernel/ 20K README 7.9M vmlinux*
> 4.0K drivers/ 8.0K lib/ 4.0K REPORTING-BUGS
>
> "make menuconfig" shows, in "General setup -->" :
> () Local version - append to kernel release
> [ ] Automatically append version information to the version string
>
> What else do I need to do?
>
> In the meantime, are there any other X drivers I could use until that's
> up, down to and including plain VGA? Framebufffer? 800x600 SVGAP?
>
> I tried "nv", but apparently the version I have doesn't support this GPU
> (Geforce 7600GS). How do I get a more recent one? I went to (a mirror
> of) x.org, but they don't have binaries and the source is in some system
> called "git". What do I do with that?
>
You go to the nvidia site (don't know the URL, off the top of my head).
They have a page with Linux drivers (actually a single current driver
for most all of their products). You download it and run it. It checks
to see if you've got source for the kernel, etc. and offers to rebuild
itself for your machine. Usually it's pretty smooth, but I've had
problems recently with it. That's why I'm running the nv driver myself.
My GPU is not one of the more exotic NVidia cards.
Paul
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