Re: nVidia drivers

[Rupert Heesom <rupert@heesom.org.uk>]

Thanks for the pointer.  I followed the instructions on that page, but
I'm still stuck; some weird things.....

I installed the needed deb files:  gcc-3.4, nvidia-kernel-source,
nvidia-kernel-common, kernel-headers-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp.

Then I tried to run the make-kpkg cmd from the header dir:...
...and I got a problem......

It seemed to have a problem with the kernel version number, so I tried
changing it, or leaving it out etc.  Nothing.  I tried taking a look at
the Makefile in the headers directory.  Couldn't do that either!  I
stat'd the files in the headers directory, all stat'd wierdly (below).

This has got beyond anything I know in Linux, so some help would be
appreciated!  How can files stat to be a symlink to a directory that
does not exist???

----------------------------------------------------------
rahdebian:/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp# CC=gcc-3.4
make-kpkg --append-to-version -11-amd64-k8-smp modules_image
We do not seem to be in a top level linux kernel source directory
tree. However, there are kernel headers that may be suitable to build
external kernel modules. Since you do not have non-module targets, let
us continue.
Warning: The file include/linux/version.h exists
The contained UTS_VERSION string:
                        "2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp"
does not match expectations:
                        "..-11-amd64-k8-smp"
I'll try and recover
touch: cannot touch `Makefile': No such file or directory
touch Makefile failed:256 at /usr/bin/make-kpkg line 981, <VERSION> line
3.
rahdebian:/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp# ls
arch     fs       ipc     Makefile        net       sound
crypto   include  kernel  mm              scripts   usr
drivers  init     lib     Module.symvers  security
rahdebian:/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp#


rahdebian:/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp# stat Makefile
  File: `Makefile' -> `../kernel-headers-2.6.8-11/Makefile'

They all stat the same way.


On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 12:47, Frederik Schueler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> check out the amd64-howto at
> 
> http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id274891
> 
> it explains how to compile and install nvidia drivers on debian-amd64.
> 
> Kind regards
> Frederik Schueler
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Rupert Heesom <rupert@heesom.org.uk>