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Installing Debian on zx200 with Nvidia card

adriano_8 — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 01:57:38 GMT

Hi again:

I install on my zx2000 one Debian (from HP Linux Enablement Kit) but I can't use my NVIDIA Quadro 900 XGL.

I download the IA-64 driver from NVIDIA webpage, but the installer report me that it don't find one kernel that match...

Anybody has the same problem? How could be solve it? Please don't propose me to change teh graphic card ;-)

Re: Installing Debian on zx200 with Nvidia card

Pascal Eberhard — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:33:35 GMT

Hi,
The Nvidia installer checks if it finds a already precompiled nvidia module which match you kernel. It is not probably not the case.

Then the Nvidia installer try to compile it for your current kernel. For that you need to install the source of you kernel.

If the kernel source is already installed you should have a directory name linux-2.x.xx there:
# ls -l /usr/src/

If not:

# apt-cache search kernel-source
give you the list of the kernel available.
use uname -r to know which one you need and install it. You have to install as well 'make' and 'gcc' at less but there are probably already installed.

Note: sid and sarge provide 2 nvidia packages: nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx but i don't think there are available for IA-64.

Re: Installing Debian on zx200 with Nvidia card

Bill Thorsteinson — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:59:52 GMT

I recently dropped th NVIDIA driver for the
Xfree nv driver. You may want to try that.