[Gllug] nvidia drivers

[Stig Brautaset]

* Harry Jackson <postituk at yahoo.com> spake thus:
> 
> I am trying to install the nvidia drivers on my debian box because I
> think this is what is stopping X from working. I downloaded the source
> and it will not build because I did not have the kernel headers. I then
> got the kernel headers for 2.4.16-k7 and tried again but still no joy
> becaue it wants a file stringify.h which is not included in my headers.

I thought nVida drivers were binary-only?

> What do I have to do to get it working. Do I need to install a new
> kernel and if so can someone tell me what package I can use to do this.
> I have not seen any 2.4.18 source kernels in dselect against unstable.

Which mirror are you using? There is a package called
kernel-source-2.4.18 for unstable, but you can equally well download the
normal kernel source from ftp.kernel.org (or a mirror!) and compile from
there. 

Stig
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