> My other problem is with the nvidia drivers ... You should be able to do this (without needing to compile a custom kernel):
apt-get install nvidia-glx-src apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src apt-get install kernel-source-xxx (make sure you match your running kernel version) apt-get install kernel-package cd /usr/src tar zxf nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz tar jxf kernel-source-xxx.tar.bz2 cd /usr/src/nvidia-glx-xxx dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc cd /usr/src/kernel-source-xxx make-kpkg modules-image This creates 3 .debs in /usr/src, one for the nvidia kernel module, and two one for nvidia glx. You will need to do something like: dpkg -i /usr/src/nvidia-glx_xxx.deb /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-xxx.deb