Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

Paul Cartwright wrote:
> 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??

apt-get install nvidia-kernel-`uname -r`
(or)
apt-get install nvidia-kernel-legacy-`uname -r`
then,
apt-get install nvidia-glx (or) nvidia-glx-legacy


> > 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

ok, what about the linux-headers-`uname -r` package?

> > 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..

I have never seen such magic. Changing to a directory giving you root 
access? Something is very odd. Inspect your PATH and check if 'cd' is 
aliased to something.

echo $PATH
type cd

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Raj Kiran Grandhi
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