On Saturday 07 February 2004 5:35 pm, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > I have installed the 2.4.24 kernel for i386 from www.backports.org (I > > failed miserably trying to compile my own kernel), and since the > > nvidia kernel module needs the kernel sources to compile, I downloaded > > and installed the accompanying source package. So far so good. > > It doesn't need the source. Install the matching kernel-headers package > instead: > > apt-get install kernel-headers-2.4.24-1-386 > > and call the installer with > > --kernel-include-path=/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.24-1-386/include
OK - you live and learn - I didn't even know that the header package was available (I was looking for kernel-source). Anyway - that's done the trick, as far as compiling goes - and the module is now accepted, but if I then use the nvidia driver, all I get is a blank screen, and I can't even Alt-Fx to a spare console to recover - I have to do a hard reset to get back - but read on... > > This is getting to be a pain - I've done nothing but download stuff > > for 2 days over a 56k dial up connection - it'd be nice if I could get > > the right stuff first time :o( > > I think there are drivers available from Intel for your winmodem that > can be compiles using the kernel-headers package. Go to > <http://www.windodems.org> to find more info. There are - I've got the sources from the Intel site (the only binaries are for RedHat - not Debian - but I get a bucketload of errors (directory tree problems, I assum) when I try and compile it... but as in the "read on" before - see my other posting entitled "recomended reading" thanks for your help so far. Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
