Re: howto says up to 2.6.11 -- is this outdated?

2006-03-29 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:40:16 +0200, Stefano Simonucci wrote: Then the compilation stops. Sorry I should have told you in the Italian Mailing List :D You need to patch the drivers, please see Bug #357992: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=357992 -- Best Regards, Jack Linux

howto says up to 2.6.11 -- is this outdated?

2006-03-28 Thread hendrik
The Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 HOW-TO from http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html says in the section Is nvidia card supported for sarge, or using a stock kernel up to 2.6.11: go to /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 (or whatever headers you installed)

Re: howto says up to 2.6.11 -- is this outdated?

2006-03-28 Thread Alexander Sieck
Hello Hendrik, I guess it is just outdated. The debianized nvidia driver (1.0.8178-1) works on my AMD64 with kernel 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8 and Xorg 6.9.0 without any problems so far. deb64a:~$ Xorg -version X Window System Version 6.9.0 (Debian 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 20060117044708 Frederik Schüler [EMAIL

Re: howto says up to 2.6.11 -- is this outdated?

2006-03-28 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:30:21 +0200, hendrik wrote: Is the restriction on kernels up to 2.6.11 serious? At the time of the writing 2.6.11 was the newest kernel. I am running the nvidia drivers with a 2.6.16 kernel. -- Best Regards, Jack Linux User #264449 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux on AMD64

Re: howto says up to 2.6.11 -- is this outdated?

2006-03-28 Thread Stefano Simonucci
On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 20:34 +0200, Jack Malmostoso wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:30:21 +0200, hendrik wrote: Is the restriction on kernels up to 2.6.11 serious? At the time of the writing 2.6.11 was the newest kernel. I am running the nvidia drivers with a 2.6.16 kernel. -- I am not