On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 07:54:29PM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > I have searched (Google & these archives) for several hours seeking a debian > specific howto for nvidia drivers. I found some rather stale stuff, but > nothing specific to Debian stable (Woody). I searched debianplanet and > debianhelp too. really? i've posted the exact directions at least twice in the past two or three days... here it is, from my outbox: - roll your own kernel with make-kpkg, or at least install the kernel-headers package for your kernel version (after extracting the kernel source to /usr/src/linux) # cd /usr/src/linux && make-kpkg binary (there will be .debs in /usr/src after that. OR...) # apt-get install kernel-headers-2.x.x - install the following packages: # apt-get install nvidia-glx-src nvidia-kernel-src - extract the nvidia module source # cd /usr/src && tar xvfz nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz - build the kernel module for the nvidia card # cd /usr/src/linux && make-kpkg modules_image - then in /usr/src you should have a .deb package for nvidia kernel # cd /usr/src && dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-2.x.x_rev_i386.deb - then install the glx stuff # cd /usr/src/nvidia-glx_version && dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc - go back to /usr/src, and install everything that starts with nvidia-glx and ends with .deb - finally, reconfigure X, which i strongly recommend that you do with debconf # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 there should be a new driver entry when it asks you for your video card driver, like nvidia or nvdriver or something (not nv), choose that, and you should be on your way. hth sean
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