On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:32:49 -0000, Brian Coiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Andrea Vettorello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...] > > Thank you Andrea for your reply. I have spent hours trawling archives, and > found lots of threads about Nvidia drivers, but none that I could > understand! I really need a complete idiot's guide to doing this which, as > you say, will need to come from someone who's done it. > > Regarding Sarge, isn't that unstable? What exactly does that mean? How > exactly would I switch to it? I deliberately chose to install Woody, from a > set of CD's, because I felt that for a complete dunce like me it would be > far easier than downloading and installing bleeding-edge stuff that I don't > understand. > Actually Sarge is an alias of the "testing" Debian branch, in the next few weeks, when all the release bug will be fixed, will be declared "stable". Unstable, or Sid, is another branch of Debian, in few words, it's a fast moving target, packages changes often, and sometimes things broken up... The problem with Woody is that was released more than 2 years ago, so you can have some trouble installing with newer HW. Anyway, if you want to give Sarge a try, modify your /etc/apt/sources.list commenting or deleting the stable/woody lines and adding something like deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free and deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main for security updates. I've put the UK Debian mirror, should works without problems, if not you can choose the mirror you prefer. After that, you update the apt packages list with "apt-get update" and start the installing with "apt-get dist-upgrade". This should proceed without problems, changing all the Woody packages with the corresponding Sarge versions. If apt spit out some error messages, usually an "apt-get -f install" should resolve broken dependencies. If you still have problems, ask here... =) After that, you can install a 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernel, in the "non free" repository (for the details on "non free" look on the Debian pages) there's a nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-1-386 kernel (or 686,k5,k6,k7, choose what suits you better), so this could be the easier path to install the binary nvidia drivers. Don't know if you'll find compiled binary drivers or need to compile them from sources, you should find enough information in the nvidia-kernel documentation and, in case of compiling from sources, you should find some scripts to automate the process. Hope this helps. Andrea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
