[Sussex] Debian and the nvidia driver!

[John D.]

On Friday 18 August 2006 22:45, Steven Dobson wrote:
> John
<snip>
> Can you provide a URL to the nVidia driver that you've got?  I would
> like to see what the package is dependant on.

I'm presuming that you meant this:- http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html and 
it's the IA32 version 8762.

> nVidia (and ATI and Matrox) don't provide open source drivers so they
> have to be built for the appropate kernel.  If you have a package then
> someone has done the work, but it may not yet be built for the kernel
> you've installed.

No no, it's normally just a case that if there isn't a pre-built module for 
the kernel version, you just have to download the driver version you want, 
the "kernel-sources" file (which I understand is the same 
as "kernel-headers") and then do 

init 3

su to root

followed by "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8762-pkg1.run"

it then does it's usual i.e. you have to accept the T's & C's, it checks for 
prebuilt module, if nothing found, you hit OK, then it asks you a couple of 
Yes/No questions and builds the module and installs it for you - then only 
thing then is to change the driver name in the Xorg.conf from "nv" 
to "nvidia" and then restart the X server.

Problem is, is that it's erroring me out at the module build, with the error 
that says

[quote]'/lib/modules/2.6.17-2-686/build/include/linux/kernel.h is missing and 
that I need to make sure that the kernel-sources package is installed and 
correctly configured. [/quote]

Plus that the kernel source path to '/lib/modules/2.6.17-2-686/build is 
incorrect.

This has stumped me, because previously, I've just had to install the 
kernel-sources and the driver will compile/build fine.

regards

John D.