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Da_Brain
05-08-2004, 12:15 AM
Hi All,

Installed 3.4 to my HD. A Newbie here, but IM progressing and LOVE this Open Source and of course Knoppix/Debian!

Not doing too bad, just got my wireless Netgear print server up and running with my HP Laser Jet 6p!--)))

IM trying to do my home work (reading up on things), could some one tell me where I can get the video drivers ( NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 ) for this video card and any installation info would be greatly appreciated.

Currently IM using the 2.4 kernel and pretty content with it. Running a P-4 @ 2.4 Gig with lots of memory.

Thanks in advance! :D

kelmo
05-08-2004, 12:39 AM
I have successfully built nvidia modules for both kernels, however, 2.4.26 is easier as the headers are there and ready to use, whereas you need full source for 2.6.5.

http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/

Follow the instructions steb by step, but you could do what I did:-

The part where I differ to the instructions is that I build the module by the debian/rules method.

Save this to a text file (minus the hash lines!) :-
###########################
#!/bin/sh
VER=2.4.26
debian/rules KSRC=/usr/src/kernel-headers-"$VER" KVERS="$VER" kdist_image
###########################
Maybe name it debuild2.4.26. Copy it to /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel.
When the time comes to build the package, execute the script with "sh debuild2.4.26" (minus quotes).

cd ..
dpkg -i nvidia-kernel.....

Continue with the authors excellent instructions.