On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 10:30:17AM -0000, Brian wrote: > Hi there, > > Complete Linux newbie here. Successfully partitioned the disk on my W2K > box, and got it dual-booting with Woody (installed from a CD set). I > thought that was pretty cool, and I was going good! Tried startx, and got > this: (EE) No devices detected. > > Hmmm, no video driver presumably. My video card is a an ASUS V9520 Magic > (Nvidia GeForce FX5200 Series). No Linux drivers at Asus, so tried Nvidia: > lots there! Unfortunately the most recent ones all refused to install > because they don't support kernel versions earlier than 2.4 (despite the > readme saying that 2.2.12 is the minimum). The Woody install seems to have > given me 2.2.20. Well woody also supports Linux 2.4.x and that is what you should use. > Now, I've used apt to install kernel-source-2.2.20. I have used the > kernel-include-path switch on the Nvidia installer to point at the folder > containing the kernel.h file, which is what the installer seems to want. > Thus, my command line is this: > > sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run --kernel-include-path > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.20/include > > But, I still get the error described above. AFAIR Nvidia supports online Linux 2.4.x and Linux 2.6.x ATM. > Incidentally, before the install fails, I get a warning that "The compiler > used to compile the kernel was gcc 2.7; the current compiler is gcc 2.95." > Thus far I have overriden this warning and gone ahead anyway, but could > someone tell me how to set the CC environment variable, as suggested by the > installer, to get the correct compiler? gcc 2.7? I don't think that woody ships such an old compiler. 2.95 is default in woody. I suggest you to install a recent Linux Kernel, try www.backports.org packages. Then you should be able to run the nvidia driver.
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