-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roger Salisbury >Sent: Thursday, 3 April 2003 4:40 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [SLUG] Almost impossible Question : Latest XFree86 install on debian > >I'm trying to install a >Nvidia: Diamond Viper 770 ..... RIVATNT2 >Video Adapter. >on a Woody debian system. The $5 disk at the SLUG AGM. >No Joy getting it to work above 800/600 resolution with "vga" or "nv" drivers. >OK then: load the lasted & try! >Got latest CVS tree from info at www.xfree86.org ..... "cvs checkout -A xc" >But can't finalise the install! >I have produced the last 16 lines of output. > >Question IS: what is going wrong , is there a fix? >Has anyone failed at this point before. **SNIP** >two commands thus far..... >#make World ..................builds OK >#make install ..................fails with "gunzip.c:9: zlib.h: No such >file or directory"
Install the zlib development libraries and the above error will likely disappear. :) An easier solution would be to use one of the XFree86 4.2.x apt-able sources from http://www.apt-get.org/ and install the "latest" version using apt. OK, so it wouldn't be as bleeding edge as the CVS branch but recent enough to download NVidia's driver, do the necessary kernel compile things and reboot. Apparently NVidia's how-to works as long as you follow it to the letter. Good luck. --James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
