Re: Need help with NVIDIA driver installation
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 06:41:04PM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: I have been trying to install the NVIDIA drivers for my NVIDIA 32mb GeForce 2 card without much success. I succeeded in downloading two tar files from the NVIDIA web site under windows and then decompressing them into my /usr/local directory. This created two new directories /usr/local/NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769 and /usr/local/NVIDIA_kernal-0.9-769. I typed make install in NVIDIA_GLX* directory and received error message, install: cannot create regular file '//usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers': No such file or directory make:***[install]Error 1 Then I proceeded to mkdir /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers thinking this might solve the problem. I again ran make install and got these messages: Removing all old and conflicting files! There's two deb packages for Nvidia drivers, they don't contain the sources but they do contain some good install scripts, 'apt-get nvidia-kernel-??? nvidia-glx-???' then copy the two source tarballs into /usr/src/ and follow the direction in the readme for the deb's you should be find. You'll need kernel headers to compile the nvidia-kernel driver, if you compile your own you've already got them if you using the stock debian kernel you'll need to 'apt-get kernel-source-??? kernel-headers-???' Cheers Joel -- Anagrams reveal the mysteries. Windows Two Thousand Professional = Stoned Sonata: Worship Windows foul.
Re: Need help with NVIDIA driver installation
You need to remove the directory that you made and install the kernel drivers first. The Removing all old and conflicting files message is normal let it do what it wants to. Just install the kernel drivers first and they should work fine for you. On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 06:41:04PM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: I have been trying to install the NVIDIA drivers for my NVIDIA 32mb GeForce 2 card without much success. I succeeded in downloading two tar files from the NVIDIA web site under windows and then decompressing them into my /usr/local directory. This created two new directories /usr/local/NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769 and /usr/local/NVIDIA_kernal-0.9-769. I typed make install in NVIDIA_GLX* directory and received error message, install: cannot create regular file '//usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers': No such file or directory make:***[install]Error 1 Then I proceeded to mkdir /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers thinking this might solve the problem. I again ran make install and got these messages: Removing all old and conflicting files! __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- BOFH excuse #337: the butane lighter causes the pincushioning pgpWwRBeea8L7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Need help with NVIDIA driver installation
I have been trying to install the NVIDIA drivers for my NVIDIA 32mb GeForce 2 card without much success. I succeeded in downloading two tar files from the NVIDIA web site under windows and then decompressing them into my /usr/local directory. This created two new directories /usr/local/NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769 and /usr/local/NVIDIA_kernal-0.9-769. I typed make install in NVIDIA_GLX* directory and received error message, install: cannot create regular file '//usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers': No such file or directory make:***[install]Error 1 Then I proceeded to mkdir /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers thinking this might solve the problem. I again ran make install and got these messages: Removing all old and conflicting files! __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Need help with NVIDIA driver installation
I have been trying to install the NVIDIA drivers for my NVIDIA 32mb GeForce 2 card without much success. I succeeded in downloading two tar files from the NVIDIA web site under windows and then decompressing them into my /usr/local directory. This created two new directories /usr/local/NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769 and /usr/local/NVIDIA_kernal-0.9-769. I typed make install in NVIDIA_GLX* directory and received error message, install: cannot create regular file '//usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers': No such file or directory make:***[install]Error 1 Then I proceeded to mkdir /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers thinking this might solve the problem. I again ran make install and got these messages: Removing all old and conflicting files! rm -f //usr/lib/libGL.* rm -f //usr/lib/libGLcore.* rm -f //usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.* rm: cannot remove '//usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.*:Not a directory make:***[install]Error 1 Next I ran make install in NVIDIA_kernel directory and received this message: rm -f nv.o os-interface.o os-registry.o module-linux NVdriver cc -c -Wall -Wunknown-pragmas ... ...yada yada... nv.c:50:linux/modversions.h:No such file or directory make:***[nv.o]Error 1 Help! This is really getting frustrating. I have essentially no Linux/Unix experience. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: Need help with NVIDIA driver installation
I recommend that you download the following:
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/n/nvidia-glx-src/nvidia-glx-src_0.9.769-1_i386.deb
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/n/nvidia-kernel-src/nvidia-kernel-src_0.9.769-1_i386.deb
Install these and follow the (rather terse) instructions in
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-{glx|kernel}-src/README.Debian. This should
create debs for nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-your_kernel_version
which you can install with dpkg. You will also have to edit your
XF86Config to refer to the nvidia driver.
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 06:41:04PM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote:
I have been trying to install the NVIDIA drivers for
my NVIDIA 32mb GeForce 2 card without much success. I
succeeded in downloading two tar files from the NVIDIA
web site under windows and then decompressing them
into my /usr/local directory. This created two new
directories /usr/local/NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769 and
/usr/local/NVIDIA_kernal-0.9-769.
I typed make install in NVIDIA_GLX* directory and
received error message, install: cannot create
regular file '//usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers': No
such file or directory
make:***[install]Error 1
Then I proceeded to mkdir
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers
thinking this might solve the problem.
I again ran make install and got these messages:
Removing all old and conflicting files!
