debian and nvidia drivers

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:00:08PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> Just got Debian Lenny up and runnning last night, having a few headaches mainly
> because I'm just not used to it.
> 
> 1st off, I _did_ see Lennart's howto on installing the NVidia drivers the
> 'debian way', and I understand the reasoning for using that method, however I
> would like to, if possible, use the latest drivers available from NVidia.

You really really really don't want to use the nvidia installer.  We do
package up the latest stable release from nvidia rather quickly.

> I am at the point now where I've got the appropriate headers for my kernel
> installed, but when I run the NVidia installer I get a message that the GCC
> used to compile my kernel is not the same as the currently installed kernel,
> and that the 2.6 kernel will reject modules built with a GCC that doesn't match.
> 
> Anyone else ran into this and/or have any sol'ns for this?

Use the debian method, it does the right thing.

Of course the nvidia modules are already compiled for the lenny kernel
so you just have to install the packages.  Unfortunately they are
sitting in sid, not lenny, which is getting really frustrating.  Not
sure what has to happen to get the darn things moved to lenny.

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Len Sorensen
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