RE: installing nvidia card in lenny apt source.list not quite right...
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>>
>> debian:/home/mikef# m-a a-i -t nvidia-kernel
>> .
kef#
>
> Well there was a problem with earlier versions of the nvidia package in
> unstable/testing which was recently fixed in unstable. The workaroudn
> was:
>
> cd /usr/src
> ln -s nvidia-kernel.tar.gz nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz
>
> Then run m-a again.
>
> --
> Len Sorensen
I tried this but it did not work.
Here is my output:
debian:/home/mikef# cd /usr/src
debian:/usr/src# ls
linux linux-kbuild-2.6.24
linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64 linux-OLDVERSION.1208822724
linux-headers-2.6.24-1-common
debian:/usr/src# ls -la
total 20
drwxrwsr-x 5 root src 4096 2008-04-22 01:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2008-04-11 01:54 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 37 2008-04-22 01:05 linux -> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-04-22 01:04 linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2008-04-22 01:04 linux-headers-2.6.24-1-common
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2008-04-22 01:04 linux-kbuild-2.6.24
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 28 2008-04-22 01:04 linux-OLDVERSION.1208822724 -> linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64
debian:/usr/src# ln -s nvidia-kernel.tar.gz nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz
debian:/usr/src# m-a auto-install nvidia
Updated infos about 1 packages
Getting source for kernel version: 2.6.24-1-amd64
Kernel headers available in /lib/modules/2.6.24-1-amd64/build
apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libxklavier11 libtotem-plparser7 refblas3 lapack3 libhsqldb-java-gcj
libportaudio2 libsuitesparse libneon27-gnutls libg2c0 libsndfile1
gcc-3.4-base
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Done!
download
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package nvidia-kernel-source is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package nvidia-kernel-source has no installation candidate
Updated infos about 1 packages
debian:/usr/src# m-a a-i -t nvidia-kernel
.
Updated infos about 1 packages
Getting source for kernel version: 2.6.24-1-amd64
Kernel headers available in /lib/modules/2.6.24-1-amd64/build
apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libxklavier11 libtotem-plparser7 refblas3 lapack3 libhsqldb-java-gcj
libportaudio2 libsuitesparse libneon27-gnutls libg2c0 libsndfile1
gcc-3.4-base
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Done!
download
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package nvidia-kernel-source is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package nvidia-kernel-source has no installation candidate
Installation of the nvidia-kernel-source source failed.
Ignoring this package. Maybe you need to add something to sources.list, maybe
the contrib and non-free archives.
Updating info about nvidia-kernel-source
Updated infos about 1 packages
debian:/usr/src# pwd
/usr/src
debian:/usr/src# ls
linux linux-kbuild-2.6.24
linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64 linux-OLDVERSION.1208822724
linux-headers-2.6.24-1-common nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz
debian:/usr/src# ls -l
total 12
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 37 2008-04-22 01:05 linux -> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-04-22 01:04 linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2008-04-22 01:04 linux-headers-2.6.24-1-common
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2008-04-22 01:04 linux-kbuild-2.6.24
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 28 2008-04-22 01:04 linux-OLDVERSION.1208822724 -> linux-headers-2.6.24-1-amd64
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 20 2008-04-22 19:41 nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz -> nvidia-kernel.tar.gz
debian:/usr/src#
Should I not have more files than this in my source directory?
Thanks, Mikef
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