Hello all, I've just moved to debian in the last few days after several years of RH - usual reasons. Enjoying it very much so far. I installed woody with bf24 kernel from dl'd CD and just put on the most basic system. I used apt-get to install x, xfce, mozilla and a few other things.. I then decided to upgrade to sarge and did a dist-upgrade.
I now want to compile the nvidia drivers for my GeForce3 and have found it slightly confusing from here. Here are some questions: - I installed gcc3.3 because this seemed to be appropriate for sarge from discussions I found on the net but I wasn't sure how to tell. Isn't it safer that I compile the driver with the same compiler that was used for X and the kernel? How do I find this out? - When I used aptitude to get gcc, it also installed a set of kernel headers. Why is this a dependency for the compiler? - Not surprisingly, the nvidia installer wants me to download the kernel headers to match my system - why can't I find headers for the bf24 kernel that I used initially - presumably becasue I moved up to sarge? - I assume it would be easier to just grab a new kernel, headers and everything and rebuild the kernel and then the nvidia driver. Is this likely to be problematic for other stuff on the system (e.g. X?) - Under aptitude there is a wide range of header packages available (not at my machine now so I can't remember them, sorry) for a given kernel - what is the difference between these? What is the minimum set to do what I want - some customisation of the kernel and building of other modules like nvidia? Any other advice, pointers etc gratefully received... c __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]