Hi Dave,

|--==> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:12:01 -0500, Dave Phillips 
<[email protected]> said:

  DP> I installed those sources, but nVidia's binary installer didn't seem to 
  DP> like them. Synaptic simply downloaded a bzip'd tarball and put it in 
  DP> /usr/src. I unzipped the package and left everything as-is, but the 
  DP> nVidia installer complained about version.h and the sources not being 
  DP> configured. :(

Which bzip'd tarball did you download? The one from kernel.org? That
won't work..

The right tarball is shipped by the linux-source package I pointed you
too:

/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.29.tar.bz2

just untar it and then tell the nvidia installer to use that path
(there should be some environment variable to set I think).

  DP> I also tried to download the linux-headers-2.6.29-1-multimedia-amd64 
  DP> package via Synaptic but receive this error:

  DP>    Depends: linux-kbuild-2.6.29 but it is not available.

Sorry, that's currently broken.

  DP> I'd also like to know how to designate and activate the open-source nv 
  DP> driver. I should mention that the video chipset here is an 8200M that 
  DP> has not been explicitly supported until nVidia's most recent driver 
  DP> release. According to what I've found on Google the nv driver might work 
  DP> with the chipset. I know the nVidia binary works, it's used for the 8.10 
  DP> partition on the same machine.

If the chip is supported, Xorg should use the nv module automatically.

Ciao!

Free
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