The Debian Way-NVIDIA

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Sat February 23 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> FWIW, I find the nvidia driver to be worth the little effort required.
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

I was reading that page, following along, but I got to this part and I don't 
understand how to FIX it:
and then choose the options you want. Note, however, that each of the 
following kernel options has been reported to cause trouble with the nvidia 
driver: 
      Processor Type and Features –> Local APIC support on uniprocessors 
(X86_UP_APIC) (not available if you have an SMP kernel, including 
hyperthreading) 

It is therefore recommended that you disable all of the above options in your 
kernel configuration. If for some reason you don't disable them, and then 
your X display doesn't work properly with the nvidia driver, you should 
suspect these options as the likely cause of the trouble. For more details, 
see the Troubleshooting section.
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here is what happened to me:

/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg clean
exec make -f /usr/share/kernel-package/ruleset/minimal.mk clean 
====== making target minimal_clean [new prereqs: ]======
Cleaning.
test ! -f .config || cp -pf .config config.precious
test ! -e stamp-building || rm -f stamp-building
test ! -f Makefile || \
            make    ARCH=i386 distclean
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-6-686'
scripts/Makefile.build:17: /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-6-686/scripts/basic/Makefile: 
No such file or directory
make[4]: *** No rule to make target 
`/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-6-686/scripts/basic/Makefile'.  Stop.
make[3]: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2
scripts/Makefile.clean:17: /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-6-686/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/Makefile: 
No such file or directory
make[3]: *** No rule to make target 
`/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-6-686/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/Makefile'.  Stop.
make[2]: *** [arch/i386/kernel/acpi] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_clean_arch/i386/kernel] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-6-686'
make: *** [minimal_clean] Error 2

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there is no folder /scripts/basic
and there is no folder i386/kernel/acpi

# uname -a
Linux paulandcilla 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686 
GNU/Linux

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