Short answer: to use the nVidia proprietary X driver, you need on your system the kernel source that matches your installed kernel. This is so because part of what the nVidia package provides is a customized framebuffer in the form of a kernel module called "nvidia".
How did you install the kernel-source-2.4.18 package you mention? If you just did the apt-get (or dselect, if you do it that way) part, you did not un'tar the source tree. You just have a package called something like /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 . You need to do two things for the nvidia installer to run properly:
1. un'tar the source in the usual way. 2. make the customary symlink: ln -s /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 linux
Then the nvidia installer should succeed.
(NOTE: The one thing I cannot vouch for is that kernel-source-2.4.18 and kernel-image-2.4.18-k7 packages actually match up. I always compile my own kernels after installing, so I have no actual experience with using the Debian kernel-image-* packages.)
yup, I suggest the same. get your own kernel sources and compile them. if you get a 2.6 series kernel, you need to upgrade a few packages on the system( the version numbr of the software required is found in the sources in /Documentation/Changes.I suggest you get a 2.6, it's worth the download and you will really feel the difference and also the 5336 version has support for the 2.6 series and I see no reason you shuld not take advantage of this.
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