kernal source and video drivers

[aaron]

Hello, currently I have bee working at this problem for 15 hours strait... all night, for I am a totall newbie at linux/debian and installing video drivers. Well, my problem is I can't figure out where to get the kernal source for the nvidia display driver to use. I've been to kernal.org but I don't know what to download and even if I did I wouldn't know what to do with it. I'm using kernal 2.6.8-1-386 can anyone help me?

[sprucio]

Do you have an nVidia card? For now, you can just use the "nv" driver in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file to load the basic graphics. Later on, if you decide to use a proprietary driver from nVidia, that'll be a different setup.

[aaron]

I origionally used the nv drivers during x windows setup but was unable to load gdm so I had to switch to the vesa drivers. Right now I'm trying to get NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run to work but it says I need the kernal source, or kernal headers I don't know what either of them are, I noticed you could pick up kernal headers for the 2.4 kernal using synaptic, but nothing for kernal 2.6.8-1-386

[sprucio]

Did you try apt-get update and then apt-cache search kernel-headers | grep 2.6.8?

I found this package on Debian's repository.

http://packages.debian.org/testing/deve ... s-2.6.8-10

[aaron]

I'll try that right now

[aaron]

how did you guys install the drivers for your nvidia cards?

[aaron]

well when I try apt-get install kernal-source-2.6.8 I get E:couldn't find package kernal-source-2.6.8

[aaron]

when I try apt-cache search kernel-headers | grep 2.6.8? nothing happens and I go back to the command line

[sprucio]

# apt-get update
# apt-cache search kernel-headers | grep 2.6

That should give you a whole bunch.