error building nvidia kernel module
 

I'm installing new nvidia drivers (want 3d for gaming).

For the most part this looked like it went okay. It complains toward the end about dependencies (alba). Question is, should I worry about it? Should I uninstall anything related to 'alba'?

Here's some of the output. Really the part I'm concerned with is the end
:
debian:/home/lb# m-a a-i -i -t -f nvidia-kernel
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
...Recommended packages:
kernel-package devscripts
The following packages will be upgraded:
nvidia-kernel-source
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 449 not upgraded.
Need to get 1395kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 _htp://_ftp.debian.org testing/non-free nvidia-kernel-source 1.0.7174-4 [1395kB]
Fetched 1395kB in 10s (129kB/s)
(Reading database ... 108650 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace nvidia-kernel-source 1.0.7174-3 (using .../nvidia-kernel-source_1.0.7174-4_i 386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement nvidia-kernel-source ...
Setting up nvidia-kernel-source (1.0.7174-4) ...
.
Updated infos about 1 packages
Extracting the package tarball, /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz
...
....a bunch more here.....
...
NVdriver n vidia.o
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv'
rm -f /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/Makefile || true;
rm /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/gcc-check
rm /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/cc-sanity-check
dh_clean
rm /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/debian/control
rm /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/debian/dirs
rm /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/debian/override
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel'
(Reading database ... 108650 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-686-smp 1.0.7174+1 (using .../nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2- 686-smp_1.0.7174-4+2.4.27-10_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-686-smp ...
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686-smp/updates/alsa/snd-pdaudiocf.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686-smp/updates/alsa/snd-vx-cs.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686-smp/updates/alsa/snd-vxp440.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686-smp/updates/alsa/snd-vxpocket.o
Setting up nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-686-smp (1.0.7174-4+2.4.27-10) ...
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686-smp/updates/alsa/snd-pdaudiocf.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686-smp/updates/alsa/snd-vx-cs.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686-smp/updates/alsa/snd-vxp440.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686-smp/updates/alsa/snd-vxpocket.o

debian:/home/lb#

ok, so I got back into Synaptic Package Manager and removed those pesky ALSA (I typo'd earlier).

rebuilt. no errors. well, there were but I doubt they're an issue:
1)complaint about "void 0" in math statement. I think all that has to do with is return values.
2)couldn't find a directory to delete. no biggy.