nvidia drivers

**robotics56a** · 08-20-2005

after many failed attempts I'm posting here.

how do I get these drivers installed?

It seems simple enough download the .run file from their site and run (at runlevel 3), but it needs a pre-installed kernel and/or source that I can seem to get right. I also tried to get it to work with the apt-get packages. In other words ... I'm completely lost.

**LondoJowo** · 08-20-2005

Here's a good place to start, it was written by Techimoe.
http://www.linuxforums.org/tutorials...ial-44103.html

**jens** · 08-20-2005

In Debian I prefere it like this:

Add this in your /etc/apt/sources.list(backports):

deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable nvidia-graphics-drivers dpatch
deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable nvidia-kernel-common xfree86

(I'm not sure if this part is needed in Knoppix, being sid based, neither do I recommend using Sid/Knoppix if your new with Linux)

apt-get update

apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-kernel-common
apt-get install kernel-headers-`uname -r`
export KVERS=`uname -r`
export KSRC=/usr/src/kernel-headers-`uname -r`
cd /usr/src
tar xvzf nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz
cd modules/nvidia-kernel
debian/rules binary_modules
cd ..
dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-`uname -r`*deb
depmod -a
apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-glx-dev xserver-xfree86

Next configure X(if not done already) or just edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.[/quote]

**robotics56a** · 08-20-2005

LondoJowo: It comes up with a no prekernel or source found error.

jens: Its good until this point

Code:

root@box&#58;/home/weird# apt-get install kernel-headers-2.6.11
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package kernel-headers-2.6.11 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E&#58; Package kernel-headers-2.6.11 has no installation candidate

**LondoJowo** · 08-20-2005

You need to install the source, try running this command.

Code:

apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.11

**robotics56a** · 08-20-2005

Code:

root@box&#58;/home/weird# apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.11
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
kernel-source-2.6.11 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 637 not upgraded.

but no change in the installer.

**robotics56a** · 08-26-2005

not to bump an old thread, but I wanted to inform you guys that I got it working after installing debian over knoppix. The only hangup I had was finding out that 'nv' doesn't do 3d 'nvidia' does.

**St. Joe** · 08-26-2005

Yeah, 'nv' is just a generic driver setting.
Which works fine as long as you don't run complex graphics.

That same notation confused me when I first saw it listed.

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