Re: nvidia doesn't work on 3.x kernels
Andres Cimmarusti <acimmarusti@gmail.com> writes:
> Sorry, you guys are right. It works fine with kernels in backports.
> However It keeps failing with dkms using a 3.0.18 kernel compiled from
> pristine upstream sources.
> While installing all the nvidia packages (and having linux-headers
> installed as well), dkms simply skips the 3.0.18 kernel and says no
> sources are available. But I was able to compile the nvidia kernel
> module using module assistant
I suspect that dkms is expecting a particular layout and structure that's
not provided by a stock upstream kernel tarball, but I haven't dug into
exactly what it's looking for to be sure.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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