It works! thanks, you were right. I should have done the final 'make install' in top-level of the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2 directory. So far (system has only been up only for 4 hours) it seems to be running very smoothly hope it stays like this.
Thanks once again James -----Original Message----- >From : Stefaan Himpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To : debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Date : 06 December 2003 23:33:46 Subject : Re: Inspiron 2650 Kernel 2.6 nvidia problem >> It would be great if some knowledgeable person could please point out the >>> blindingly obvious error I am making here, which for some reason is >>> totally >>> escaping me. > >Be sure to run “make install“ in the top-level directory >(on my pc that would be ~/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2/ > as opposed to ~/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2/usr/src/nv ) > >Regards, >Stefaan. --- James Aitken "Don't worry, everything's getting nicely out of control" Douglas Adams -- Personalised email by http://another.com