On Wednesday 08 October 2008 09:27:53 Christopher Howard wrote:
> I'm not much of a kernel expert. Is there anything special about
> compiling kernel modules for the latest Debian Lenny kernel -- 2.6.26-1?
> I've been trying to compile the Nvidia binary driver for my GeFORCE 8600
> GT, and can't seem to pull it off successfully. I downloaded the package
> "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.09-pkg1.run" from Nvidia and ran it at
> run-level 1 (with the X server off). Per all its requirements, I 1)
> installed gcc-4.1; 2) set the CC environment variable to gcc-4.1; 3)
> installed the kernel header files, source, and tree.
> Its seems to get all the way through the progress bar and then says that
> it could not compile the module, with no explanation except 'see the
> nvidia log file'. I attached the log file in-line to the end of this
> e-mail.
>
> Is there a more modern, generic driver package or something that I'm
> suppose to be using? I'm not sure because I come from a Mandriva
> background, and the Mandy 2008 Spring version came with Nvidia drivers
> pre-installed that seemed to run my hardware acceleration just fine.
That whole 100 series was iffy for me. It is quite old now though -- do you
need to use it? I had 100.14.19 working on my machine, I think the 09
version never compiled for me (but I am also on AMD64).
Right now I am using 173.14.12 on Lenny 2.6.26-1-amd64.
James
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