Nvidia drivers for X

[Javasnob]

Alright, I finally made the full switch to Debian Linux, and I downloaded the driver installer for my Nvidia Geforce 5900XT. However, the installer says that it has no precompiled kernel interfaces for my kernel (I'm using a 2.4.27 kernel) and that it couldn't find any kernel sources to use. I currently have sources in /usr/src, so I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. Could someone please help me out by describing what they did or any other ideas they have? Thanks in advance!

[jens]

This is how I did it:

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

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