[Sussex] Debian and the nvidia driver!

[Steven Dobson]

John

On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 14:46 +0100, John D. wrote:

> 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.

> file:///usr/include/linux/kernel.h

This is the standard one applications would compile against - it isn't
the one drivers need.

> 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

These three are for and old kernel yes.

> 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 (empty)

There are for your current kerenel

> file:///usr/src/linux-source-2.6.17/include/linux/kernel.h

This is probably the one that is needed but the empty link one is looking for
it in:
   file:///usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-2/include/linux/kernel.h

> 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 ? 

When I installed "linux-headers-2.6.17-2-amd64" it also installed
"linux-headers-2.6.17-2" did that package get installed for you too.
Not that this is the common header file that both your 686 kernel and my
amd64 one was built against.  Try:

  # apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.17-2

and see if that helps.

Steve

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