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Old 02-15-2005, 01:03 AM   #1
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Installing problem of NVIDIA


I had tried to intall NVIDIA IA32 driver(6629-pkg1) under exiting X environment. during the installing, i get a trouble about this message: "No precompiled kenerl interface was found to match your kenerl. Need to install the development tool 'cc' which is package 'gcc'." how can i do???
 
Old 02-15-2005, 01:10 AM   #2
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You can download gcc from gcc.gnu.org and try compiling from source but most distrobutions have this program as a precompiled package and since your asking this I'd suggest you hit up your distros website and search for gcc there
 
Old 02-15-2005, 08:09 AM   #3
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I can provide a very easy answer if you tell me what distro you are running.
 
Old 02-15-2005, 08:22 PM   #4
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what happens after that?
doesn't it ask you to automatically download a kernel interface from nvidia's ftp site?
and after that one more thing:
doesn't it ask you if you want nvidia driver's installer to compile your kernel in way that it works???

That should be happening...

Last edited by JoannesX; 02-15-2005 at 08:23 PM.
 
Old 02-15-2005, 10:45 PM   #5
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what happens after that?
doesn't it ask you to automatically download a kernel interface from nvidia's ftp site?
and after that one more thing:
doesn't it ask you if you want nvidia driver's installer to compile your kernel in way that it works???

That should be happening...
yes, it had asked me but it can't reach anything to download it. why?
 
Old 02-15-2005, 10:46 PM   #6
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I can provide a very easy answer if you tell me what distro you are running.
i'm using debian sarge.
 
Old 02-15-2005, 10:47 PM   #7
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You can download gcc from gcc.gnu.org and try compiling from source but most distrobutions have this program as a precompiled package and since your asking this I'd suggest you hit up your distros website and search for gcc there
ya, i had already downloaded gcc but didn't know how to use it...
 
Old 02-16-2005, 01:57 AM   #8
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I don't use debian but I know they use the apt-get command and I'm pretty sure you can use that to install packages from the internet. I think it would be something like
apt-get install gcc
but dont quote me on that I could be wrong. Try it though and if it installs gcc you should be good to go with the NVIDIA installation
 
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I don't use debian but I know they use the apt-get command and I'm pretty sure you can use that to install packages from the internet. I think it would be something like
apt-get install gcc
but dont quote me on that I could be wrong. Try it though and if it installs gcc you should be good to go with the NVIDIA installation
i had already install gcc from cd-rom that command is "apt-get install gcc", but how can i up-to-date from internet by commands?
 
Old 02-16-2005, 02:46 AM   #10
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@_@ the danger problem still exist, the error messages show that, Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel, ......, do i need to install kernel source? I had used this command "apt-get install kernel-source" whereas nvidia driver has problem. Beforce I had tried this, "apt-get install gcc", "apt-get install make". but still get problem.
 
Old 02-16-2005, 07:29 AM   #11
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yes, it had asked me but it can't reach anything to download it. why?
then if the installer didn't find it to download, let it do the kernel part for you..
it'll only take some minutes..
 
Old 02-16-2005, 08:10 AM   #12
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then if the installer didn't find it to download, let it do the kernel part for you..
it'll only take some minutes..
but kernel doesn't do anything to driver
 
Old 02-18-2005, 12:05 AM   #13
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nvidia-installer.log(part of it)
Code:
Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
WARNING: Skipping the runlevel check (the utility `runlevel` failed to run).
-> License accepted.
-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li
   ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f
   rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes)
-> No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site;
   this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for
   your kernel.
ERROR: Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel. 
       Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your
       kernel; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the
       'kernel-source' rpm installed.  If you know the correct kernel source
       files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the
       '--kernel-source-path' commandline option.
why do i get this problem?
 
Old 02-18-2005, 11:20 AM   #14
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This is what you need http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debi...tallation.html
 
Old 02-20-2005, 03:01 AM   #15
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This is what you need http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debi...tallation.html
from this website, how can i install nvidia-kernel-common?
Code:
nvidia-kernel-2.6.7-1-386:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.0.6111+1
  Version Table:
     1.0.6111+1 0
        500 http://people.debian.org modules-unstable/i386/ Packages
     1.0.6106+1 0
        500 http://people.debian.org modules-unstable/i386/ Packages
 
  


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