[juneau-lug] Re: debian install tutorial

  • From: Chuck Hakari <chakari@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 07:53:33 -0900

On Monday 04 November 2002 06:32 am, you wrote:
> well i followed the tutorial and everything went good until setting x up.
> i have a gforce4 ti 42000  videocard,  i headed on over to nvidia.com and
> dl the nvidia kernel module and the video drivers couldnt get kernel module
> to install.  something about a different compiler that was used to compile
> the kernel.  any thoughts?  i have updatd xfree to version 4.2.0, and i
> used the 2.4 kernel.  perhaps i need to rebuild the kernel, if that is the
> deal is there a "debian" way to do this or the usual way.  being new to
> debian still trying to figure out the subtle little differences,
> any help would be great.  thanks
> sean

I have a custom kernel on my Redhat system, so I have to rebuild the source 
rpm to get a driver module that matches my kernel. Not being familiar with 
Debian, I don't know if you can somehow use the source rpm get a module for 
your system.

Chuck Hakari


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