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by **Janic** » Sat, 11 Sep 2004 15:42:00

I am using Nvidia GeForce4 Ti display card.
When I run the device installer script, it complains Precompiled Kernel
Interface not found.
The machine has not been connected to internet yet, so the installer cannot
connect to the Nvidia ftp site.
I have checked the download.nvidia.com. I dont know which one is the Kernel
Interface I need.
How can I choose and download the appropriate one?
Thanx

by **Paul Lutu** » Sat, 11 Sep 2004 15:54:29

> I am using Nvidia GeForce4 Ti display card.
> When I run the device installer script, it complains Precompiled Kernel
> Interface not found.
> The machine has not been connected to internet yet, so the installer
> cannot connect to the Nvidia ftp site.
> I have checked the download.nvidia.com. I dont know which one is the
> Kernel Interface I need.
> How can I choose and download the appropriate one?

Why don't you dismiss the dialog and allow the compilation to proceed? You
do not need a precompiled driver, in fact it is statistically unlikely that
one exists for your system.

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by **Janic** » Sat, 11 Sep 2004 17:23:54

Thank you for your reply.
I am new to Linux.
The gcc is not installed, so the installer cannot proceed.
How can I install the application contains in the installation CDROM?
Thanx

> > I am using Nvidia GeForce4 Ti display card.
> > When I run the device installer script, it complains Precompiled Kernel
> > Interface not found.
> > The machine has not been connected to internet yet, so the installer
> > cannot connect to the Nvidia ftp site.
> > I have checked the download.nvidia.com. I dont know which one is the
> > Kernel Interface I need.
> > How can I choose and download the appropriate one?

> Why don't you dismiss the dialog and allow the compilation to proceed? You
> do not need a precompiled driver, in fact it is statistically unlikely
that
> one exists for your system.

> --
> Paul Lutus
> http://www.arachnoid.com

by **Andreas Jansse** » Sat, 11 Sep 2004 19:16:46

Hello

>>> I am using Nvidia GeForce4 Ti display card.
>>> When I run the device installer script, it complains Precompiled
>>> Kernel Interface not found.
>>> The machine has not been connected to internet yet, so the
>>> installer cannot connect to the Nvidia ftp site.
>>> I have checked the download.nvidia.com. I dont know which one is
>>> the Kernel Interface I need.
>>> How can I choose and download the appropriate one?

>> Why don't you dismiss the dialog and allow the compilation to
>> proceed? You do not need a precompiled driver, in fact it is
>> statistically unlikely that one exists for your system.

> Thank you for your reply.
> I am new to Linux.
> The gcc is not installed, so the installer cannot proceed.
> How can I install the application contains in the installation CDROM?

That depends on your distribution. Most mainstream distributions have
package management tools that can do that for you and retreive the
packages from the CDs or the net. You probably need

- gcc
- make
- kernel-source????.rpm
where ???? is the version number from the output of uname -r

If you need more help, tell us which distribution you use, and maybe
take a look at the manual, because installing packages should be
explained there.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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by **Janic** » Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:03:52

I am using Debian. I have tried dkpg, but the command is not there.
By the way, how can I tell the current kernel version and the version of the
patch?
I have installed the OS for more than six months and I have patched it.
Thanx for your reply.

> Hello

> >>> I am using Nvidia GeForce4 Ti display card.
> >>> When I run the device installer script, it complains Precompiled
> >>> Kernel Interface not found.
> >>> The machine has not been connected to internet yet, so the
> >>> installer cannot connect to the Nvidia ftp site.
> >>> I have checked the download.nvidia.com. I dont know which one is
> >>> the Kernel Interface I need.
> >>> How can I choose and download the appropriate one?

> >> Why don't you dismiss the dialog and allow the compilation to
> >> proceed? You do not need a precompiled driver, in fact it is
> >> statistically unlikely that one exists for your system.

> > Thank you for your reply.
> > I am new to Linux.
> > The gcc is not installed, so the installer cannot proceed.
> > How can I install the application contains in the installation CDROM?

> That depends on your distribution. Most mainstream distributions have
> package management tools that can do that for you and retreive the
> packages from the CDs or the net. You probably need

> - gcc
> - make
> - kernel-source????.rpm
> where ???? is the version number from the output of uname -r

> If you need more help, tell us which distribution you use, and maybe
> take a look at the manual, because installing packages should be
> explained there.

> best regards
> Andreas Janssen

> --

> PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 ICQ #17079270
> Registered Linux User #267976
> http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps.html

by **Andreas Jansse** » Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:26:36

Hello

> [installing nvidia driver]
> I am using Debian. I have tried dkpg, but the command is not there.

Probably you ran it as a user. You can only install packages as root.
Also, you should use apt-get. Debian has a meta package that will
install what you need:

apt-get install build-essential

Also, you should install the kernel source package:
apt-get install kernel-source-$version

Use apt-cache search kernel-source to find out the name.
Next you have to decompress it. Go to /usr/src and run
tar xfjv kernel-source-*.tar.bz2

You probably also need to configure it:
cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) /usr/src/kernel-source-whatever/.config

You only need do go through the next steps if you install using the
driver from nvidia.com, if you use a recent version of Debian, install
the prepackaged driver instead.

Edit the Makefile in the source directory and change the EXTRAVERSION to
match your kernel. Example:

VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 6
SUBLEVEL = 7
EXTRAVERSION = -1-k7

uname -r tells you how it should look like for you.

Run "make clean", "make oldconfig" and "make". Now try again to install
the nvidia driver.

Quote:> By the way, how can I tell the current kernel version and the version
> of the patch?

Kernel: uname -r

Quote:> I have installed the OS for more than six months and I have patched
> it. Thanx for your reply.

You should tell us which version of Debian you use. If you use Woody
(3.0, Stable), you probably should use the driver from nvidia.com. If
you use Sarge (3.1, Testing) or Sid (Unstable) you can install the
nvidia driver using the package management. You need the nvidia-glx
package and the nvidia-kernel package for your kernel. If there is no
kernel package for your kernel, you can also install the
nvidia-kernel-source package and kernel-package and compile the driver.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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