[plug] Xinerama on Debian

Randal Adamson ranz at devdata.net
Fri Aug 19 10:08:16 WST 2005


On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 11:14 +0930, Onno Benschop wrote:
> Randal Adamson wrote:
> 
> > However, I seem to be getting stuck on part 5 - it throws the error in 
> > the attached text file (nvidia-kernel.txt).
> >
> >Just not sure what to do now :(
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Ranz
> >
> I'd be having a look at module-assistant.
> 
> Basically the process is to make sure that you have the same headers 
> available as the currently running kernel.
> 
>     * module-assistant prepare
>     * module-assistant build {module}
>     * module-assistant install {module}
> 
> That pretty much takes care of it. (And it's the Debian way :)
> 
> I'd do an RTFM before I typed any of those commands, but that's 
> basically the deal.
> 
> Ever since I found that, nothing is a challenge any more :)
> 

Yeah I had "another option" to do this, so thanks for reminding me - I
almost forgot.

Google came up with it:

http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.txt

i'll give it a whirl :)

Cheers,

Ranz





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