Re: nvidia driver compiling problem
On Saturday 07 February 2004 5:35 pm, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> > I have installed the 2.4.24 kernel for i386 from www.backports.org (I
> > failed miserably trying to compile my own kernel), and since the
> > nvidia kernel module needs the kernel sources to compile, I downloaded
> > and installed the accompanying source package. So far so good.
>
> It doesn't need the source. Install the matching kernel-headers package
> instead:
>
> apt-get install kernel-headers-2.4.24-1-386
>
> and call the installer with
>
> --kernel-include-path=/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.24-1-386/include
OK - you live and learn - I didn't even know that the header package was
available (I was looking for kernel-source). Anyway - that's done the trick,
as far as compiling goes - and the module is now accepted, but if I then use
the nvidia driver, all I get is a blank screen, and I can't even Alt-Fx to a
spare console to recover - I have to do a hard reset to get back - but read
on...
> > This is getting to be a pain - I've done nothing but download stuff
> > for 2 days over a 56k dial up connection - it'd be nice if I could get
> > the right stuff first time :o(
>
> I think there are drivers available from Intel for your winmodem that
> can be compiles using the kernel-headers package. Go to
> <http://www.windodems.org> to find more info.
There are - I've got the sources from the Intel site (the only binaries are
for RedHat - not Debian - but I get a bucketload of errors (directory tree
problems, I assum) when I try and compile it... but as in the "read on"
before - see my other posting entitled "recomended reading"
thanks for your help so far.
Steve
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