Casey T. Deccio on 30/11/06 22:45, wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 22:12 +0000, Adam Hardy wrote:>It worked! I had previously installed the nVidia driver using nVidia's installer. I used the same installer to uninstall (using the --uninstall argument) the module. Then I used the instructions [1] linked from the above page to compile and install it the Debian way. Note that I had to uninstall the previous module first, or it didn't work. [1] http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.htmlI tried that but module-assistant couldn't find the nvidia-kernel-source in any online repository for etch - apt doesn't like the source at http.us.debian.org/debian nor people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidiaCould you give me the sources.list entry for the source where you got it?Did you include the "non-free" at the end? Anyway, here is the mirror I used: deb ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/debian etch main contrib non-free
I keep getting these sort of msgs which looks like the entries are bad:W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov etch/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/mirror.mcs.anl.gov_pub_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov etch/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/mirror.mcs.anl.gov_pub_debian_dists_etch_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov etch/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/mirror.mcs.anl.gov_pub_debian_dists_etch_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)