[plug] Getting Desperate

[Timothy White]

Innis Cunningham wrote:

> Hi All
> After nearly two weeks of trying to do the Windows
> equivalent of installing directX I am stumped.
> The story so far.
> Download the Nvidia drivers and tried to install.They
> say they need the kernal source.
> So download kernel source 2.4.25 and tried to install.
> It says it needs ncurses-devel.

You /can/ install the kernel without ncurses.
I am guessing you are trying to install the kernel with 'make menuconfig'
Try 'make xconfig' and that will give you a graphical menu based display

 From a 2.6 readme (should be similar for 2.4)

        "make menuconfig"  Text based color menus, radiolists & dialogs.
        "make xconfig"     X windows (Qt) based configuration tool.
        "make gconfig"     X windows (Gtk) based configuration tool.
        "make oldconfig"   Default all questions based on the contents
of your existing ./.config file.

So your best bet is to try it in that order. menuconfig needs ncurses.
xconfig needs Qt dev files, gconfig needs Gtk dev files. I do believe
that if all that fails there is a pure text based config although I
can't find it right now in my state of sleep.

Also, just making sure you realise that when it needs to kernel sources
it is because you need to then be running with that new kernel.
You may be able to just get the kernel headers /if/ the kernel you are
using is from a mandrake package.
On that thought, the Nvidia installer I got the other day has support
for the following kernels out of the box (or downloadable) if you are
using the mandrake kernel packages.
(I just pasted the 10.0 and up ones as I think you are using 10.0)
  Mandrake Linux 10.0 kernel 2.6.3-7mdk i586
  Mandrake Linux 10.0 kernel 2.6.3-7mdk4G i586
  Mandrake Linux 10.0 kernel 2.6.3-7mdkenterprise i586
  Mandrake Linux 10.0 kernel 2.6.3-7mdksecure i586
  Mandrake Linux 10.0 kernel 2.6.3-7mdksmp i586
  Mandrake Linux 10.0 kernel 2.6.3-13mdk i586
  Mandrake Linux 10.0 kernel 2.6.3-13mdkenterprise i586
  Mandrake Linux 10.0 kernel 2.6.3-13mdk4G i586
  Mandrake Linux 10.0 kernel 2.6.3-13mdk64G i586
  Mandrake Linux 10.0 kernel 2.6.3-13mdksecure i586
  Mandrake Linux 10.0 kernel 2.6.3-13mdksmp i586
  Mandrake Linux 10.1 kernel 2.6.8.1-10mdk i586
  Mandrake Linux 10.1 kernel 2.6.8.1-10mdksmp i586

Tim

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