On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 06:41:04PM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > I have been trying to install the NVIDIA drivers for > my NVIDIA 32mb GeForce 2 card without much success. I > succeeded in downloading two tar files from the NVIDIA > web site under windows and then decompressing them > into my /usr/local directory. This created two new > directories /usr/local/NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769 and > /usr/local/NVIDIA_kernal-0.9-769. > > I typed "make install" in NVIDIA_GLX* directory and > received error message, "install: cannot create > regular file '//usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers': No > such file or directory > make:***[install]Error 1 > > Then I proceeded to mkdir > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers > thinking this might solve the problem. > > I again ran "make install" and got these messages: > Removing all old and conflicting files! > > > There's two deb packages for Nvidia drivers, they don't contain the sources but they do contain some good install scripts, 'apt-get nvidia-kernel-??? nvidia-glx-???' then copy the two source tarballs into /usr/src/ and follow the direction in the readme for the deb's you should be find.
You'll need kernel headers to compile the nvidia-kernel driver, if you compile your own you've already got them if you using the stock debian kernel you'll need to 'apt-get kernel-source-??? kernel-headers-???' Cheers Joel -- Anagrams reveal the mysteries. Windows Two Thousand Professional = Stoned Sonata: Worship Windows foul.
