> I am new to Debian and relatively new to Linux and ask your help with this > God forsaken nVidia card. > I initially installed 2.2r0 and upgraded the system to 2.2r3 followed by a > dist-upgrade to Woody (for Xfree4.0.3). When I enter the command xf86cfg the > command is unrecognized. I have never been able to get even a frame buffered > support for this card and subsequently no X! I have tried all that I know of > to do with the dist-upgrades for a more current set-up but all has failed. I > also did a simple package selection which seemingly does not install kernl > headers or source as /usr/src/linux does not contain these items unless > Debian stores them elsewhere. I was going to try and compile the Nvidia-src > files I found on one of the Debian FTP sites that I read of in the archives, > but no kernel-src-headers.
If you want kernel source or headers, you want the kernel-source-vvv or kernel-headers-vvv packages, where vvv is the version number of the kernel you're compiling against. Personally, I recommend springing for the full source distribution, and using make-kpkg (in the kernel-package package) to compile the kernel and/or modules. In addition, you probably want the nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src packages. The documentation for those packages (in /usr/doc/package-name) should explain how to install them. You do need to be running unstable or testing, though. I haven't been able to find a good program to to auto-configure Xfree4 (XF86Setup and its ilk seem to have disappeared), but you can perform the necessary configuration with a little bit of trial and error by editing /etc/X11/XF86Config by hand- the format is really not that difficult. You can run 'dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86', which performs some of XF86Setup's functions, and which will generate a starting XF86Config. The documentation for nvidia-glx-src will describe the changes you will need to make to XF86Config (in particular, "Driver" needs to be set to "nvidia," rather than "nv". Hope that helps. -- Geoffrey M. Romer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" -Salvor Hardin "I can't leave you alone with this man! He might be a tenor!" -Fred Astaire