-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 06 January 2002 9:07 am, Penguin wrote: > I am still having problems installing Potato. I always use `simple' install [snip] > > I am still having problems installing Potato. I always use `simple' install
Posting the same text twice will not get you twice the answers :-) > mode and not select X, so I can install the unofficial XFree 4.x debs from > someone who is listed in Debian (http://people.debian.org/~someone) I > think... anyway I tried listing all the packages at once on the command > line with dpkg but that didn't work either, I got the same problem over and > over again (can't install because I have xfree-common 3.x when I need > xfree-common 4.x). A bit more specific - what is in your /etc/apt/sources.list? Why also, if you are prepared to play with xfree 4, don't you just update to woody or sid these are already in there Also I can't compile the NVIDIA drivers because the damn > stupid Makefile is fucked! Why does it have to be so complicated??? I don't > know. > Lots of nice info here on how it doesn't work would help. One suspect is that NVIDIA needs the kernel headers and is looking in /usr/src/linux/ for them. You need to tell make where to look (see docs in the NVIDIA directory). The other is that it probably needs (not sure) a 2.4 kernel and potato is a 2.2 one. Anyway, I roll my own kernel from source anyway - so I have a 2.4 kernel sitting in /usr/src/linux - I compile the kernel and install it - reboot into it in single mode (so X doesn't start) and then remake NVIDIA_kernel and NVIDIA_GLX - I control-D out of single and debian then starts me up multiuser with the NVIDIA driver installed. > I'm going to complain to NVIDIA for a start ;) and flame them about their > stupid drivers that never compile. Sure that will make a great difference! > > Also, do you know for certain that I can cure the problem once and for all > to force an install of the XFree 4 debs, fix the Makefile to just compile > all the NVIDIA drivers and install them. I know I have the correct drivers. > Can someone help me with the NVIDIA makefile? It's just a small Makefile, > only a few lines, perhaps max 10 C language files to compile plus headers. I hope the above does help - but just one other point. If you really insist on having only debian potato and not upgrading it - then you probably can't just install xfree4 debs. In that case you need to start exploring /etc/apt/preferences and have both potato and woody in your sources.list - -- Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8OCJw1mf3M5ZDr2kRAgwNAJ0bjnX140O3uxwkjEV4dT4vXZ1gCwCghmga K+HAERgYvjUN9WMmSik7uQA= =JHCO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
