I actually installed the driver using the binary provided by nvidia in etch and lenny both and I didn't fail even a single time. I don't think it's something with the driver though I don't know what else might it be.
Mridul On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I'm suffering from repeated crashes in my Eclipse IDE, which is java. > Restarting it is slow and losing work is never much fun anyway, but I > thought I'd find a solution until now. > > I have 4 approaches to the problem: > - upgrade java (done that, now on the latest release of JDK 1.5, 1.5.0_16) > - upgrade Eclipse (worst approach, might require me to do a dev > environment re-install) > - upgrade Etch to latest packages (done that) > - upgrade the nvidia driver (trying and failing). > > I'm using "nv", so I thought I'd try the proprietary nvidia driver. > > Following any of the methods on > http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers just leads me down the same > path to the point where I find "nvidia.ko failed to build" in the logs. > > I'm using the stock kernel 2.6.26-bpo.1-686 from apt, and trying to get the > nvidia-glx-legacy nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-kernel-legacy-2.6-686 packages > from non-free to install, but using the instruction: > > m-a auto-install nvidia > > leads to the error "nvidia.ko failed build", as I mentioned above. > > The other methods outlined on the wiki fail similarly. > > The executable download directly from nvidia.com has the same problem. > > Is this whole thing with the proprietary driver a bad idea or just > something that won't work until I get lenny? > > Thanks > Adam > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
