[SLUG] Almost impossible Question : Latest XFree86 install on debian

[Roger Salisbury]

Hi Debian users   I'm trying to install a Nvidia: Diamond Viper 770 ..... RIVATNT2  Video Adapter. on a Woody debian system. The $5 disk at the SLUG AGM. No Joy getting it to work above 800/600 resolution with "vga" or "nv" drivers. OK then:  load the lasted & try! Got latest CVS   tree from info at  www.xfree86.org ..... "cvs checkout -A xc" But can't finalise the install! I have produced the last 16 lines of output.   Question IS: what is going wrong , is there a fix? Has anyone failed at this point before.   Many Thanks for your help Cheers Roger     two commands thus far..... ######################################################################################################################### #make World ..................builds OK #make install ..................fails with              "gunzip.c:9: zlib.h: No such file or directory"   Last 16 lines of output: ######################################################################################################################### make[5]: Leaving directory `/var/lib/cvs/xc/lib/font/bitmap/module' make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/lib/cvs/xc/lib/font/bitmap' making all in lib/font/fontfile... make[4]: Entering directory `/var/lib/cvs/xc/lib/font/fontfile' rm -f gunzip.o gcc -c -O2 -fno-strength-reduce  -ansi -pedantic -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wundef  -I../../../include/fonts -I../include -I../../../programs/Xserver/include       -I../../../exports/include  -I../../.. -I../../../exports/include   -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE  -D_GNU_SOURCE   -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO   -DFONTDIRATTRIB          -DBUILD_SPEEDO -DBUILD_TYPE1 -DBUILD_CID             -DBUILD_FREETYPE  -DFONT_ENCODINGS_DIRECTORY=\"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/encodings.dir\"               -DX_GZIP_FONT_COMPRESSION   gunzip.c gunzip.c:9: zlib.h: No such file or directory make[4]: *** [gunzip.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/lib/cvs/xc/lib/font/fontfile' make[3]: *** [fontfile] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/lib/cvs/xc/lib/font' make[2]: *** [install] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/lib/cvs/xc/lib' make[1]: *** [install] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/lib/cvs/xc' make: *** [install] Error 2 #########################################################################################################################

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