Installing driver using Debian

[flo0]

Hi,

I'm about installing Debian woody on my new computer.

There is a GeForce 4 Ti V8420 in it.

Anyways, I got the two tar files ..1.0-3123, untared it and tried to make install.

Then modversion.h was not found and when I manually edited the Makefile to add its path, I get redefinition and parse errors.

Has anyone had experience with Debian?

Thanks for hints.

Florian

[mtrr]

install the kernel headers for your installed kernel, after that make && make install
should go without problems.


cheers

btw do 'apt-cache search nvidia' if you modified your sources.list to include online
repositories you could install everything off
the net

[Reeve]

There are packages in the Debian archive to install the NVidia drivers for you (apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src nvidia-glx-src)

[flo0]

Thanks for your help, I just took the testing packages.

I'm new to debian, so didn't know how to search for that. Now I know better ...

Unfortunately, the xserver is still not running. Better I start a new tread for that ...

Florian.