Re: OK... Newbie gives up and needs a little help... Dell Inspiron 8200 with Nvidia GEForce 440 GO...
Peter S. Hayes wrote:
OK... I give up trying this without a little help...
I'm trying to get Debian Linux (woody...2.4.18) onto my Dell Inspiron
8200 with the NVidia GE Force 440 Go video card (64 MB) of memory.
I have run through the installation a couple of times (each time the
installation boot recognized my network card but "lost" any networking
when the actual boot came up... my last install it worked) to get the
network card operating.
Is there a listing for the network card (e.g. eth0) in /proc/net/dev?
I cannot get the Nvidia to work at all in X... I've downloaded NVidia's
drivers (the two packages from their site) and tried making them... the
"GLX" make works fine, but the "Kernel" package continually gives me
errors about a missing header file... but I can find the header file in
the location I specify, so something else is not quite kosher.
What is the header and where are you finding it? My first guess is that
the driver needs some kernel header, and that maybe you are finding a libc
header of the same name in /usr/include. Have you installed the
kernel-headers for the kernel you are using.
Try doing:
apt-get install kernel-headers-2.4.18-686 # change for correct version
apt-get install -t unstable nvidia-glx-src
apt-get install -t unstable nvidia-kernel-src
The follow the instructions in
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-src/README.Debian.gz
and in
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx-src/README.Debian.gz
I tried the drivers included with the latest installation (Debian Woody)
and had no luck there... I'm getting frustrated. Maybe I need some
encouragement, maybe there's a suggestion that will work, maybe I need
my head examined!
Try the drivers from unstable.
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