Re: Newbie Nvidia/Woody problem
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 10:30:17AM -0000, Brian wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Complete Linux newbie here. Successfully partitioned the disk on my W2K
> box, and got it dual-booting with Woody (installed from a CD set). I
> thought that was pretty cool, and I was going good! Tried startx, and got
> this: (EE) No devices detected.
>
> Hmmm, no video driver presumably. My video card is a an ASUS V9520 Magic
> (Nvidia GeForce FX5200 Series). No Linux drivers at Asus, so tried Nvidia:
> lots there! Unfortunately the most recent ones all refused to install
> because they don't support kernel versions earlier than 2.4 (despite the
> readme saying that 2.2.12 is the minimum). The Woody install seems to have
> given me 2.2.20.
Well woody also supports Linux 2.4.x and that is what you should use.
> Now, I've used apt to install kernel-source-2.2.20. I have used the
> kernel-include-path switch on the Nvidia installer to point at the folder
> containing the kernel.h file, which is what the installer seems to want.
> Thus, my command line is this:
>
> sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run --kernel-include-path
> /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.20/include
>
> But, I still get the error described above.
AFAIR Nvidia supports online Linux 2.4.x and Linux 2.6.x ATM.
> Incidentally, before the install fails, I get a warning that "The compiler
> used to compile the kernel was gcc 2.7; the current compiler is gcc 2.95."
> Thus far I have overriden this warning and gone ahead anyway, but could
> someone tell me how to set the CC environment variable, as suggested by the
> installer, to get the correct compiler?
gcc 2.7? I don't think that woody ships such an old compiler. 2.95 is default
in woody.
I suggest you to install a recent Linux Kernel, try www.backports.org packages.
Then you should be able to run the nvidia driver.
HTH
Sven
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