Nvidia drivers Geforce Fx 5700
 

Im having problems installing nvidia drivers to my Geforce 4 FX 5700 card, i have a SUSE Enterprice Desktop 10.1 and Debian 4.0 installed in the same PC, it works in Suse but not in Debian.
1. I run the drivers sh /path/to/driver/
2 Message saying i have no Kernel module
3 Ask if i want to download one from nvida, cant do that right now so i answer no
4 wants to compile a kernel module from source code
Now comes what differs Suse from Debian
Suse can compile from source code, while Debian says "file /usr/src/<linuxsourcecatalog>/include/version.h is missing, source not configured", i have the default kernel that ships with Debian 4.0 Etch stable, thanks in advance

You probably havent got the source code for the kernel installed. Might possibly be enough with the kernel headers.

If you have a graphical package manager (not sure what it would be called in debian) try searching for kernel. You should find a package for the headers.

You also need to download the nvidia linux driver from www.nvidia.com .
This tool automatically builds, installs, and configures the hardware/driver.

When installing video drivers, you are actually installing a kernel module, so it looks for your current kernel configuration. I never use debian so I wouldn't know if it provides the kernel configuration. You may have to get the kernel sources and configure and compile it yourself.

kernel
 

Or use the command
apt-get kernel-source
as root.