[Cialug] Stuck on Nvidia GF Ti 4200 config

[Alan Maupin]

Barry, -- here are the results of running those strings.

debian:/# apt-get install kernel-headers-`uname -r` Reading Package Lists...
Done Building Dependency Tree... Done
kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-686 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.


debian:/# apt-get install build-essential module-assistant module-assistant
auto-install nvidia apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-settings echo nvidia
>> /etc/modules modprobe nvidia dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
E: Couldn't find package auto-install
debian:/#

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Barry Von Ahsen
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 9:15 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Stuck on Nvidia GF Ti 4200 config

Alan Maupin wrote:
> I'm attempting to install Debian 3.1 again and I'm once again stuck at the
> point of trying to install Nvidia Drivers.  I'm running the 2.6.8-686
> Kernel.
> 

apt-get install kernel-headers-`uname -r` (those are backtics)
apt-get install build-essential module-assistant
module-assistant auto-install nvidia
apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-settings
echo nvidia >> /etc/modules
modprobe nvidia
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

(stolen and modified from Theron from 
http://www.cialug.org/ewiki/?id=edit/Using+Nvidia+with+Debian)

-barry
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