On Thursday 25 March 2004 15:46, Karthik Vishwanath wrote: > I installed the 2.4.18 source by 'apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18', > extracted the source and made a symbolic /usr/src/linux -> > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/, and followed all the instructions below > as is. > > sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run quits with an error. > > # cat /var/log/nvidia-installer.log | grep ^ERROR > ERROR: Unable to determine the NVIDIA kernel module filename.
No No No, /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/ is NOT what you want i can assure you.
When you untarred the source a directory called linux-2.4.18 should have been created you then need to create a symlink to "linux" for my example underneat, so lets start again.
Actually, Richard, this is just a Debian naming convention that you are unfamiliar with. Here, for example, is a relevant portion of my /usr/src directory:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/src
[...]
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Mar 4 10:59 kernel-source-2.4.19
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25652223 Dec 5 15:59 kernel-source-2.4.19.tar.bz2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 20 Aug 19 2002 linux -> kernel-source-2.4.19
In Debian when you un'tar (for example) kernel-source-2.4.19.tar.bz2 you get a directory tree named kernel-source-2.4.19, NOT one named linux-2.4.19.
I'm so used to this convention that I'd quite forgotten that other distros don't follow it.
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