Re: nvidia drivers & kernel headers
Hi, Still stuck with getting the nvidia driver loaded.
I have the old video card re-installed-which is how I
could use debian gui. SuSE and Knoppix both recognized
this card without a hitch. So why can't I get it to
work in Debian?
--- John Yurcik <jyyc73@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am still getting the error message about not being
> able to load nvidia.o from the nvidia driver
> installer.
> I did make depends as was suggested here-it didn't
> change the error message.
> In trying to do make menuconfig in
> /usr/src/kernel-sources... the following is the
> terminal response:
>
> deblnx:/usr/src# cd kernel-source-2.4.18
> deblnx:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18# make
> menuconfig
> rm -f include/asm
> ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
> make -C scripts/lxdialog all
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/scripts/lxdialog'
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> >> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries.
> >>
> >> You must have Ncurses installed in order
> >> to use 'make menuconfig'
>
> make[1]: *** [ncurses] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/scripts/lxdialog'
> make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
> deblnx:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18#
>
> deblnx:~# apt-get install ncurses
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package ncurses has no available version, but exists
> in the database.
> This typically means that the package was mentioned
> in
> a dependency and
> never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not
> available
> with the contents
> of sources.list
> E: Package ncurses has no installation candidate
> deblnx:~#
>
> --- Robert William Hutton <rwh@helms-deep.cable.nu>
> wrote:
> > > 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:
> > >
> > > I did 1-4 above. At 'make menu config the
> > terminal
> > > responded with 'no target specified' I tried
> > adding
> > > the directory with the kernel-sources to the
> > command
> > > without without success. Do I really have to
> > compile
> > > the kernel to get this video card driver
> > installed?
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > that should be "make menuconfig" and you should be
> > in the /usr/src/linux
> > directory.
> >
> > You don't have to compile the kernel, just
> configure
> > it (I think :).
> >
> >
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