Debian woody kernel

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Author: der.hans
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Subject: Debian woody kernel
Am 28. Jul, 2001 schwäzte John W so:

> 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


Pete covered the Nvidia module question.

> 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?


As Pete said uname tells you what kernel you're running. -r gives you just
the kernel release number and -a gives you everything.

kernel-headers-<version> is the headers.
kernel-source-<version> is the full source.

Linus says the headers in /usr/src/linux shouldn't be changed with every
new version of the kernel, so if you did need to compile a module, you'd
probably want the full kernel source.

ciao,

der.hans
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