Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> > Linux paulandcilla 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686
> > GNU/Linux
>
> It appears you are using the stock kernel. There is a precompiled nvidia
> driver available for this kernel. It is in the non-free section. You
> might want to try that.
what driver would that be??

>
> Regarding the errors, do you have the linux-kbuild-2.6.18 installed?
> linux-headers depends on it, so it should have been installed
> automatically.
# dpkg --list |grep kbuild
ii  kbuild                                 1:0.1.2svn1377-5                  
framework for writing simple makefiles for c
ii  linux-kbuild-2.6.18                    2.6.18-1                          
Kbuild infrastructure for Linux 2.6.18

>
> Also, I think the recommended way to compile the kernel is as a normal
> user instead of as root. You may use fakeroot to create the debs.

I tried to follow the docs, but it does things like this:
$ cd /usr/src/linux
# make-kpkg clean
# make-kpkg kernel_image modules_image

so as a NORMAL user you cd to the folder, then MAGIC, you are root to run a 
command..

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