Nvidia Video card.

[mrrangerman43]

Hi all,

My video card is a chaintech Geforce2 64mb I'm tring to install nvidia drivers for it. I searched the nvidia web site and found the right driver, with the instructions for install. When I start the install it tells me it can't find the Kernel source, so I "apt-get install kernel-source" it installed something but when I try to install the video drivers, I get the same errors. I did some reading and I found that Blackbelt had the same problem at one time but hads changed distros to fix it. I don't want to do that, but have know idea where to look to fix the problem. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thank you
Dan

[retsaw]

I found this guide (http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html) with a with a big of digging on a G4L search (www.google.com/linux). Perhaps doing a more thorough searches may save a you a bit of time asking here, but I'll let you off on this one since you're new and it wasn't exactly the first result back. Having a quick look through it is possible it may now (contrary to what it says) also apply to the stable version of Debian, so if you are using stable you should try choosing that first and only change it if it doesn't work.

[mrrangerman43]

retsaw

Thank you, I do try to do things without having to post, I've used about a ream of paper printing out howto's on different problems I've come against just in the last week.

Thanks again

[mrrangerman43]

Its me again,

Well I finely got my video drivers goin, I found this web page http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-35225.html which had this.

This is how I did it(using module-assistant):

All as root:

NVDIST=unstable

apt-get install module-assistant nvidia-kernel-common

module-assistant auto-install nvidia (this will do most for you)

apt-get -t $NVDIST install nvidia-glx

...now edit your XF86Config-4...

Done.
It worked for me at least.
Thank you