[64studio-devel] re:My experiences with 0.9

[Ivan Anderson]

Jacco Kramer writes in part:

"2) My laptop really needs the Nvidia driver to work. The default "nv"
doesn't work properly with my GeforceGo 6200. And I can't reach max
resolution without the nvidia driver. Not to mention not having 3D
capabilities. I tried installing it from the Nvidia installer, but got:

The compiler used to compile the kernel (gcc 4.1) does not exactly match the
current compiler (gcc 4.0).  The Linux 2.6 kernel module loader rejects
kernel
modules built with a version of gcc that does not exactly match that of the
compiler used to build the running kernel.

Needless to say it errored out on me when It tried to load the module
anyway."

Jacco, this is how I installed the nvidia video drivers.

1.    gcc 4.1 is already installed but is not default. To find which gcc 
version is default type in a root terminal: ls -l $(which gcc)
If it does not show gcc-4.1 then type: ln -sf gcc-4.1 /usr/bin/gcc

2.    Add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia/ unstable 
nvidia-graphics-drivers nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-settings 
nvidia-xconfig modules

This is the repository address of the debian nvidia driver maitainer
Be sure that all previous object files from previous attempts are deleated.

Type: apt-get update
          apt-get install nvidia-kernel-common 
linux-headers-2.6.17-1-multimedia-amd64-k8 module-assistant

3.   type: m-a prepare
      m-a auto-install nvidia
that should build and install the nvidia kernel module.

4. install nvidia-glx type: apt-get install nvidia-glx

5. Change /etc/X11/xorg.conf  driver line to "nvidia"
reboot

It took 2 reboots for me to get a log in screen for some reason, first 
was a hard lock and I had to reset, but it seems to be ok now.

These and further instructions can be found at:
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/

Hope this helps

Ivan