Re: Installing nVidia drivers [WAS: Using apt to install only one package]

2008-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/20/08 06:13, andy wrote: [snip] > > OK I attempted to update my nVidia driver this weekend as I said I would > earlier this last week. Good for you! > First, I downloaded the latest nVidia installer for my card, which is a > nVidia GeForce 850

Re: Installing nVidia drivers [WAS: Using apt to install only one package]

2008-07-20 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:13:50PM +0100, andy wrote: > On the GRUB menu, several kernels are now listed - the current one and > then the 2.6.25-x kernel. Because the /boot/grub/menu.lst will > automatically load after about 5 seconds, how would I go about *safely* > removing the other kerne

Re: Installing nVidia drivers [WAS: Using apt to install only one package]

2008-07-20 Thread andy
andy wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Monday 14 July 2008 04:10:57 pm andy wrote: Stackpole, Chris wrote: Well I can't guarantee that it will all be smooth sailing when using Sid packages. It should work, but obviously mileage varies. You do not want to do an apt-get upgrade or anyt

Re: Installing nVidia drivers [WAS: Using apt to install only one package]

2008-07-15 Thread andy
Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Monday 14 July 2008 04:10:57 pm andy wrote: Stackpole, Chris wrote: Well I can't guarantee that it will all be smooth sailing when using Sid packages. It should work, but obviously mileage varies. You do not want to do an apt-get upgrade or anything like tha

Re: Installing nVidia drivers [WAS: Using apt to install only one package]

2008-07-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Monday 14 July 2008 04:10:57 pm andy wrote: > Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > > > > > Well I can't guarantee that it will all be smooth sailing when using Sid > > packages. It should work, but obviously mileage varies. You do not want > > to do an apt-get upgrade or anything like that but just a si

Re: Installing Nvidia Drivers in Sarge

2004-12-19 Thread aldebaran
Toufeeq Hussain wrote: HI Paul, now here's an additional tip, if you run multiple kernels, the script will only install it on one version of the kernel, boo hoo! so that means you need to install nvidia everytime you switch kernels. The easy hack around this is to extract the the files from

RE: Installing Nvidia Drivers in Sarge

2004-12-19 Thread Toufeeq Hussain
HI Paul, > now here's an additional tip, if you run multiple kernels, the script > will only install it on one version of the kernel, boo hoo! so that > means you need to install nvidia everytime you switch > kernels. The easy > hack around this is to extract the the files from the script >

Re: Installing Nvidia Drivers in Sarge

2004-12-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 15:20 +0530, Toufeeq Hussain wrote: > HOWTO available for installing the NVIDIA Driver through the default > NVIDIA Installer at nvidia.org ? > > When I run the installer it says kernel source not found even after I > provide the > --kernel-source-path= > > I apt-get 'ed t

Re: Installing Nvidia Drivers in Sarge

2004-12-16 Thread Paul Tsai
Toufeeq Hussain wrote: HOWTO available for installing the NVIDIA Driver through the default NVIDIA Installer at nvidia.org ? When I run the installer it says kernel source not found even after I provide the --kernel-source-path= I apt-get 'ed the kernel source too, still it fails to build the mod

RE: Installing Nvidia Drivers in Sarge(Solved)

2004-12-15 Thread Toufeeq Hussain
Running the default installer with the -ae (expert mode) switch worked . (BThanks (B (B- (B .''`. Toufeeq Hussain (B: :' : Debian-Sarge User (B`. `'` Infosys,Chennai (B `- (B-- (B (B (B> -Origina

Re: Installing Nvidia Drivers in Sarge

2004-12-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Toufeeq Hussain wrote: HOWTO available for installing the NVIDIA Driver through the default NVIDIA Installer at nvidia.org ? When I run the installer it says kernel source not found even after I provide the --kernel-source-path= I apt-get 'ed the kernel source too, still it fails to build the mo

Re: installing nvidia drivers - kernel-headers problem

2004-11-15 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Bram Mertens (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:34, Andreas Janssen wrote: > [...] >> Make sure, that the nvidia-glx package is installed as well. You also >> must change the video driver from "nv" to "nvidia" >> in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. > > Done and done, and I restar

Re: installing nvidia drivers - kernel-headers problem

2004-11-15 Thread Bram Mertens
Hi On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:34, Andreas Janssen wrote: [...] > Make sure, that the nvidia-glx package is installed as well. You also > must change the video driver from "nv" to "nvidia" > in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Done and done, and I restarted X as well. I started nvidia-settings and it brings u

Re: installing nvidia drivers - kernel-headers problem

2004-11-15 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Bram Mertens (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 14:19, Andreas Janssen wrote: > [...] >> > All I have to do to install the latest 2.6 kernel is: >> > apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-686 kernel-headers-2.6-686 >> >> This packages depend on the latest versions (currently ke

Re: installing nvidia drivers - kernel-headers problem

2004-11-15 Thread Bram Mertens
Hi On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 14:19, Andreas Janssen wrote: [...] > > All I have to do to install the latest 2.6 kernel is: > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-686 kernel-headers-2.6-686 > > This packages depend on the latest versions (currently kernel-{image > headers}-2.6.8-9 in Sarge). So I tried

Re: installing nvidia drivers - kernel-headers problem

2004-11-15 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Bram Mertens (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 08:45, Andreas Janssen wrote: > [...] >> You should get both packages for the same architecture, otherwise you >> will have problems building or loading the module. Install >> kernel-image-2.6-686 and kernel-headers-2.6-686. T

Re: installing nvidia drivers - kernel-headers problem

2004-11-15 Thread Bram Mertens
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 08:45, Andreas Janssen wrote: [...] > You should get both packages for the same architecture, otherwise you > will have problems building or loading the module. Install > kernel-image-2.6-686 and kernel-headers-2.6-686. They should depend on > the latest version. m-a should be

Re: installing nvidia drivers - kernel-headers problem

2004-11-12 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Bram Mertens (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > [Installing nvidia driver and module-assistant] > Installing module-assistant and nvidia-kernel-common went fine but I > didn't perform the 'module-assistant auto-install nvidia' step yet. > > According to the HOWTO I will also need the package >

Re: installing nvidia drivers - kernel-headers problem

2004-11-11 Thread Andrew Schulman
Hi Bram. > I would like to install the nvidia drivers on my laptop. I found a > HOWTO that looks very nice on > http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html > > Before starting with the installation I wanted to install all required > packages to see if everything would go as e

Re: Installing NVIDIA drivers

2003-10-24 Thread Paul William
1) install kernel headers debian package for you kernel 2) create symlink /usr/src/linux which points to the appropiate kernel headers directory for your current kernel in my case its /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.22-1-k7 (the kernel headers directorys are in /usr/src) On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 08:02

Re: Installing NVIDIA Drivers

2003-10-23 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 08:04:31PM +0200, Stefan Seifert wrote: > Hi, > I want to install the nvidia drivers NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run. > But when I run it in ends with an error: > > ERROR: Unable to find the kernel header files for the currently running > kernel. >Please make su

Re: Installing NVIDIA Drivers

2003-10-23 Thread techlists
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 13:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to install the NVIDIA drivers but I get this error: > > ERROR: Unable to find the kernel header files for the currently running kernel. > Please make sure you have installed the kernel header files for your >

Re: Installing NVIDIA Drivers

2003-10-23 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Stefan Seifert (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I want to install the nvidia drivers > NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run. But when I run it in ends with an > error: > > ERROR: Unable to find the kernel header files for the currently > running kernel. > Please make sure you have installed th

Re: Installing NVIDIA Drivers

2003-10-23 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Stefan Seifert wrote: Hi, I want to install the nvidia drivers NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run. But when I run it in ends with an error: ERROR: Unable to find the kernel header files for the currently running kernel. Please make sure you have installed the kernel header files for your