Thanks Myron I was hoping that someone might know what the source names were for apt-get. Being new to apt I still trying to figure it out. Good ill try that before I start to recompile the kernel. I haven't had any trouble installing from source in the past, so when I ran my make command and got the different compiler error I was a little miffed. But I will try the apt-get method and see what happens. Thanks for the help sean -----Original Message----- From: juneau-lug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:juneau-lug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Myron Davis Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 11:55 PM To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: debian install tutorial Hi Chuck! Actually all you need to do is have a running kernel and your headers for the nvidia kernel stuff, you can compile it and if your box has the right headers it will link properly into your kernel with no problems. The most likely reason why it failed to build is kernel headers. I haven't tried any of the new compilers but I wouldn't see a real reason why a different compiler would matter. I did it by source myself but.. I believe you can do a apt-get install nvidia-glx-src, and a apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src and get it working. There are a couple of modules which it default loads which conflict with the nvidia X driver (you should be able to find them via the XFree86.log if you hunt and disable them) also I believe nvidia has instructions on how to do it for debian. -Myron On Mon, 04 Nov 2002, Chuck Hakari wrote: > > 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 > > > ------------------------------------ > This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list. > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject header. -- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9x4dsnfM/KCuG6/IRAhxBAJ9mgLu2BOx/Es6HK4Mm4EZQNl3dYgCfWTQx l6m6cQpu3GvoC2/ZPw69yNw= =Krvm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------ This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject header. ------------------------------------ This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject header.