debian and nvidia drivers

Jamon Camisso jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Sun Sep 28 16:11:27 UTC 2008


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.
> 
> 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?

"export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.1" and then running the installer will work. 
Whatever version the installer complains about is the one to use. You 
may have to apt-get it, don't recall.

Jamon

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