Re: installing nvidia drivers - kernel-headers problem
Hello
Bram Mertens (<bram-mertens@linux.be>) wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 14:19, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> [...]
>> > All I have to do to install the latest 2.6 kernel is:
>> > apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-686 kernel-headers-2.6-686
>>
>> This packages depend on the latest versions (currently kernel-{image
>> headers}-2.6.8-9 in Sarge).
>
> So I tried to install the new kernel like you said but I got a warning
> about an existing /lib/modules/2.6.8-1-686. I move this dir to
> /lib/modules/2.6.8-1-686.old as suggested by apt(?) and tried again.
>
> This time I got a warning about an unmet dependency for
> kernel-image-2.6-686 (depends on kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686) and was
> suggested to run apt-get -f install. After running this the new
> kernel was indeed properly installed. After a reboot I followed the
> instructions of the HOWTO I mentioned earlier and everything went
> fine. I noticed a nice splash-screen after restarting X (and gdm) and
> xscreensaver-demo now allows me to select 'Atlantis', 'Gears' and
> 'GLMatrix' which previously complained about missing modules.
>
> So I assume everything is working fine now, although I would like to
> know how much FPS I schould be able to expect now, +/- 32 doesn't seam
> like an awful lot to me...
> (My video-card is a GeForce FX Go 5300)
Make sure, that the nvidia-glx package is installed as well. You also
must change the video driver from "nv" to "nvidia"
in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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