XServer not working after install

[cyberwarrior]

Hello everyone,

I installed Debian 3.1 Sarge(2.6.8 kernel) yesterday on my AMD 1700+ machine having an ASUS A7N-266VM-SE motherboard with on-chip NV Geforce 2 MX 440 graphics.The problem is that Xserver is not starting after install. The XFree86 log file is attached with this message

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After a helpful guy on debianhelp.org told me to download latest versions of NV graphics drivers,I did so but upon running them I got errors. Following are the contents of NV log file:

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nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Mon Feb 20 18:27:36 2006

option status:
license pre-accepted : false
update : false
force update : false
expert : false
uninstall : false
driver info : false
no precompiled interface: false
no ncurses color : false
query latest driver ver : false
OpenGL header files : true
no questions : false
silent : false
no backup : false
kernel module only : false
sanity : false
add this kernel : false
no runlevel check : false
no network : false
no ABI note : false
no RPMs : false
force tls : (not specified)
force compat32 tls : (not specified)
X install prefix : /usr/X11R6
OpenGL install prefix : /usr
compat32 install prefix : (not specified)
installer install prefix: /usr
utility install prefix : /usr
kernel name : (not specified)
kernel include path : (not specified)
kernel source path : (not specified)
kernel output path : (not specified)
kernel install path : (not specified)
proc mount point : /proc
ui : (not specified)
tmpdir : /tmp
ftp mirror : ftp://download.nvidia.com
RPM file list : (not specified)

Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> License accepted.
-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li
ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f
rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: No)
-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; this means
that the installer will need to compile a new kernel interface.
-> Performing CC test with CC="cc".
ERROR: Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel.
Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your
kernel and that they are properly configured; on Red Hat Linux systems,
for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' RPM installed. If you
know the correct kernel source files are installed, you may specify the
kernel source path with the '--kernel-source-path' command line option.
ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file
'/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions
on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux
driver download page at www.nvidia.com.
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I also cannot connect to my nameserver.I properly added
nameserver my_dns_server_address
to /etc/resolv.conf
but it still can't resolve any names.
But given an IP address it connects.

Therefore I have to manually download things using windows and then mount the FAT32 partition in Windows.

I m a newbie and can't guess what to do .Any help is welcome.
Thanx in advance

[Zelmo]

You need the kernel-source package, or at least the kernel-headers package, that matches your installed kernel.
You can find your installed kernel version thusly:

uname -r

[farslayer]

here is a handy how-to that features multiple methods of getting the nVidia drivers installed..

http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debi...dia/index.html