On Saturday 28 July 2001 20:02, John W wrote:
>   I managed to get the dist upgrade to Woody completed. Xfree86 4.0.3 is
> installed but I cannot get an X display with this Nvidia card (worst
> purchase I've made). I managed to find the debian source for the Nvidia
> kernel patch? and GLX module. I used the simple install method in the
> beginning with potato and it seems I have no kernel headers or source
> installed. How can I determine what kernel is being used and then get the
> appropriate source and headers?

Type "uname -a". Potato had version 2.2.17, woody currently has either 2.2.19 
or 2.4.6.

I have an Nvidia card and I did not have to recompile anything to get it to 
work. You see, NVidia is a bit odd in that they supply modules for their 
hardware but those modules are not GPL (you're right, we shouldn't have 
bought them). But there is a free version built into XFree86, which does not 
take advantage of some of the hardware acceleration. But it works just fine. 
Heck, I installed the ones from the vendor and then I got lockups. Probably 
not designed for SMP systems, lots of drivers from the vendors forget about 
SMP.

Any how, install xserver-xfree86 and then run xf86cfg. Make sure your 
XF86Config and .xinitrc are right before you start recompiling things. 

-Pete-