[Sussex] Debian and the nvidia driver!

John D. johnsemail at f2s.com
Sun Aug 20 13:46:29 UTC 2006


The light bulb appeared above my head driving back from the outlaws (post 
prandial).
If the nvidia installer is looking 
for /lib/modules/2.6.17-2-686/build/include/linux/kernel.h, but can't find 
it, then is there any other instances of it?

A quick visit to konqueror showed me this

file:///usr/include/linux/kernel.h
file:///usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.14-kanotix-9/include/config/debug/kernel.h
file:///usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.14-kanotix-9/include/config/lock/kernel.h
file:///usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.14-kanotix-9/include/linux/kernel.h
file:///usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-2-686/include/config/debug/kernel.h
file:///usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-2-686/include/config/lock/kernel.h
file:///usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-2-686/include/linux/kernel.h (this one is 
the empty link)
file:///usr/src/linux-source-2.6.17/include/linux/kernel.h

I'm guessing that the top 3 can be discounted as they refer to the old kernel 
version, the next 3 can also be discounted as they are the debug, lock and 
the empty link, which leaves me with the last one.

Now that is the linux-source, so I don't know what to do with it from there 
(apart from going to the synaptic listing again to see if theres a 
linux-headers package that I may have missed).

Or is it that I need to link the 
original /lib/modules/2.6.17-2-686............../kernel.h that the nvidia 
driver can't find to 
the /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.17/include/linux/kernel.h ? 

regards

John D.




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