Which driver(s) must I get from nvidia? I can get to their download site (nvidia.com/object/linux.html), but am unsure what I need to download.
I got the latest version which gives me a file: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run.
# sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run
quits with a series of errors saying that "no matching precompiled kernel interface was found", followed by "unable to find your kernel source tree".
Now, I think a part of the problem here is that I do not have a matching kernel that is running with a kernel source. 'uname -r ' gives 2.4.18-k7. I can find (and have installed) a kernel-source-2.4.18 package, but not a kernel-source-2.4.18-k7 package. How to fix it?
Short answer: to use the nVidia proprietary X driver, you need on your system the kernel source that matches your installed kernel. This is so because part of what the nVidia package provides is a customized framebuffer in the form of a kernel module called "nvidia".
How did you install the kernel-source-2.4.18 package you mention? If you just did the apt-get (or dselect, if you do it that way) part, you did not un'tar the source tree. You just have a package called something like /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 . You need to do two things for the nvidia installer to run properly:
1. un'tar the source in the usual way.
2. make the customary symlink:
ln -s /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 linuxThen the nvidia installer should succeed.
(NOTE: The one thing I cannot vouch for is that kernel-source-2.4.18 and kernel-image-2.4.18-k7 packages actually match up. I always compile my own kernels after installing, so I have no actual experience with using the Debian kernel-image-* packages.)
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