Re: installing nvidia - missing

[Alexander Winston <alexander.winston@comcast.net>]

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 08:32, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Paul William (<webmaster@startlinux.co.nz>) wrote:
> 
> > When I try to install the nvidia drivers I get a compiler mesasge that
> > I am missing this file:
> > 
> > nv-linux.h:24:31: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory
> > make: *** [nv.o] Error 1
> > 
> > modversions.h is not installed wit my kernel (2.4.18-bf). I am running
> > sid.
> 
> To build the nvidia drivers, you either need the kernel header package
> (kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4) or the kernel source package.

One should not grab the kernel headers that match the running kernel.
Instead, one should grab the kernel headers that match the kernel that
compiled libc. One can find out which kernel libc was compiled on by
running “/lib/libc.so.6 | grep "Compiled on"”.