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.

You could solve number 1 by using apt-get install kernel-headers-`uname -r`