Re: Graphics Drivers (I'm new to Linux)

[kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

travis.newton@starcomputing.cjb.net wrote:

> I took a look through, I used the first link in the email I was given
> (http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/index.html) and under the
> heading, "Stock or Custom Kernel?" I ran the following in a terminal:
>
> apt-cache policy kernel-image-$(uname -r)
>
> and I was given the following:
>
> kernel-image-2.3.27-2-386:
> Installed: 2.4.27-10sarge1
> Candidate: 2.4.27-10sarge1
> Version Table:
> *** 2.4.27-10sarge1 0
> 500 http://mirrors.kernel.org stable/main Packages
> 500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> To quote the HOWTO (link above):
> "If a version is listed as installed, but the only source listed for the
> installed version is /var/lib/dpkg/status, then you may be running a
> custom kernel, or a stock kernel that's old enough to have dropped out of
> the Debian distribution."
>
> How would I go around getting the kernel sources for this so that I may
> execute the official installer from NVIDIA?
>
> Travis
>  
You are running Debian's stock kernel. You can get the corresponding 
kernel source by installing the kernel source package. The appropriate 
command on sarge is

apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.27


raju

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