Re: Need help with NVIDIA driver installation

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net>]

I recommend that you download the following:

ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/n/nvidia-glx-src/nvidia-glx-src_0.9.769-1_i386.deb
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/n/nvidia-kernel-src/nvidia-kernel-src_0.9.769-1_i386.deb

Install these and follow the (rather terse) instructions in
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-{glx|kernel}-src/README.Debian.  This should
create debs for nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-<your_kernel_version>
which you can install with dpkg.  You will also have to edit your
XF86Config to refer to the nvidia driver.


On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 06:41:04PM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote:
> I have been trying to install the NVIDIA drivers for
> my NVIDIA 32mb GeForce 2 card without much success. I
> succeeded in downloading two tar files from the NVIDIA
> web site under windows and then decompressing them
> into my /usr/local directory. This created two new
> directories /usr/local/NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769 and
> /usr/local/NVIDIA_kernal-0.9-769. 
> 
> I typed "make install" in NVIDIA_GLX* directory and
> received error message, "install: cannot create
> regular file '//usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers': No
> such file or directory
> make:***[install]Error 1
> 
> Then I proceeded to mkdir
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers
> thinking this might solve the problem.
> 
> I again ran "make install" and got these messages:
> Removing all old and conflicting files!