LinuxQuestions.org - debian install on MSI K8N NEO2 (amd64)

1. First I did a net install for amd64 support. Everything installed fine, but when I went to install NVIDEA 6800 driver from the NVIDEA site (NVIDEA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-7674-pkg2.run) I believe I encountered the error "could not find source file (/usr/src)". And if fact there was no sources in the src directory.

2. Next I figured I would follow the many procedures on the web to down load an amd64 source and compile a custom kernel. One such site I used was //alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html. The apt-get source list I used was the following:

deb //debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64 sarge main contrib non-free
deb-src //debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64 sarge main contrib non-free

Now when I went to download the most current amd64 source using apt it downloaded source 2.6.8. However, I noticed the image I was using from the net install was 2.8.10.

To make along story short I had problems with 2.6.8, but the net install using 2.6.10 installed fine.

The problem I had with 2.6.8. was when I executed the mkinitrd command from the boot directory I would recieve the error could not find sata_nv module. I configured the kernel for scsi support -->scsi low-leveldriver-->SATA support-->NVIDEA SATA support. Unless I'm missing something this should of picked up sata_nv. It worked using Gentoo, but there I was using 2.6.11 kernel source.

3. I really want to give Debian a try. I liked Gentoo very much, but all the custom compilations were too time consuming for my personal tastes. Anyway, any help would be very much appreciated.

Sincerely, Dave G.