debian stable + nvidia driver

[Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>]

Hi there,

   Has anyone installed a debian stable + nvidia driver recently. I am
stuck with linux kernel 2.6-26, I do not understand exactly what is
going on with backports:

http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/linux-headers-2.6-amd64

  I even tried moving to the linux image in testing, but udev
apparently changed a lot, so I had to revert the change (I do not
remember the exact error).

  Anyway, I went back to installing a stable 5.0.4 with linux 2.6.26
and installing nvidia-kernel-2.6.26, I discover the driver
173.14.09-5v (stable/non-free) did no support my card (heavy
flickering on any action).

  I then tried to compile the nvidia-graphics-drivers on my amd64,
since it now requires ia32-libs  (>= 20090804) [amd64]. I do not care
about any ia32 stuff, so I simply remove all references to ia32 from
the debian/control file and then compiled it by hand:

  dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc

  All seems well until depmod exit with a 1 error code. Where can I
see what is going on ? Is there a log ?

Thanks,
-- 
Mathieu