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Re: Two problems with installation of Lenny



Finally I have managed to install the driver and it works perfectly now after installing the binutils and kernel sources. I just wonder why they were not installed by default as they are essential
Thank you Ölafur for the hint
Ibrahim


 
2009/4/22 Ibrahim Shaame <ishaame@gmail.com>
No, it's not there. Will try to install binutils this afternoon


 
2009/4/22 Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson <ojsbug@gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:24:31AM +0200, Ibrahim Shaame wrote:
> I have two problems in installing Debian Leny:
>
> 2 - I have just acquired ASUS with AMD Phenom Quad and NVIDIA GForce. I have
> installed Slamd64 ( a Slackware variant for AMD 64bit). It booted after the
> first shot and X used framebuffer as a default display drvier. I then
> downloaded the NVIDIA driver from NVIDIA and could install within seconds.
> Everything is working perfectly. Then I installed my 5 DVDs of Debian amd64.
> But at the end of the exercise X Windows could not fire up (screens not
> found, etc..) When I tried to install the NVIDIA driver I got the message
> "ld" not found. And truely I could not find it any where in the "bin"s. And
> there I am stuck. The only good news is that "Grub" can boot both Slamd64
> and Debian

Is the ld not in /usr/bin/ld?
If not, try to install the binutils package.

HTH

Oli


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