John Yurcik wrote:
Hello, I believe that the headers and kernel are the same yet the nvidia driver installer doesn't see it that way. The error message from the installer(which is posted in this thread basically says the headers are not correct for the kernel) Is there anything Ican do to get this card recognized? Running Debian stable on 1GHZ Athlon.
1. Download and install the kernel-source package that corresponds to the kernel version you're running. 2. Unbzip the bzip file that appears in /usr/src (something like kernel-source-2.4.whatever.tar.bz2). 3. make a symbolic link to the resulting directory called /usr/src/linux (eg ln -s /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.22 /usr/src/linux).
4. copy /boot/config-<kernelversion> to /usr/src/linux/.config 5. do a make menuconfig or make oldconfig.This should be enough to generate the headers; if not you might try compiling the kernel as well:
6. apt-get install kernel-package 7. cd /usr/src/linux 8. make-kpkg kernel-image --initrd And if you want to install the kernel you just built: 9. cd /usr/src 10. dpkg -i kernel-image-<version>.deb Hope this helps. Cheers, Robert.