On Thu, 01 May 2008 13:14:19 -0500, Dave Uhring wrote:

> Create a symbolic link in /usr/src
>
> ln -s linux-headers-2.6.18.x linux
>
> Then the nVidia installer script should be able to find it.

To further clarify, since I'm running Linux again, you should have 2
directories in /usr/src with "headers" in their names:

$ ls
linux-headers-2.6.24-1-686 linux-headers-2.6.24-1-common

This version of Debian is Lenny so yours will vary some. What you want
to do is similar to this:

ln -sf linux-headers-2.6.24-1-686 linux

The directory indicated by "common" will not have the correct version.h.
The one ending in -686 will have both the file version.h and a symlink to
kernel.h in the -common directory.

Dave Uhring wrote:
> On Thu, 01 May 2008 19:37:36 +0200, Eilko wrote:
>
> I'm running Solaris ATM and can't tell you exactly where that file is but
> I think that you will find it in under /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18.x
>
> Create a symbolic link in /usr/src
>
> ln -s linux-headers-2.6.18.x linux
>
> Then the nVidia installer script should be able to find it.
>

YES! Thanks a lot for all your help and answers, I finally succeeded!
The last logical link did the trick
(I had to replace 2.6.18.x by 2.6.18.4-amd64, but that should be the
common sense you really need when you want to run (Debian-)Linux..

I have a lot of additional resolutions available now, however under
WinXP I can select 1600x1200, which I cannot select under Linux. Maybe
that's a question for nVidia

Thanks again for all your help!

/Eilko.

p.s. How am i going to convince my father to use linux? He'll get a
headache of this....

On Fri, 02 May 2008 10:44:53 +0200, Eilko wrote:

> I have a lot of additional resolutions available now, however under
> WinXP I can select 1600x1200, which I cannot select under Linux. Maybe
> that's a question for nVidia

You should probably have a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf. If it exists it can
be modified slightly to get your higher resolutions.

SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1600x1200"
EndSubSection

If the file does not exist it can be created in a number of ways. You do
need to know a few data ahead of time such as the capabilities of your
monitor.

> p.s. How am i going to convince my father to use linux? He'll get a
> headache of this....

Install a more newcomer-friendly distribution such as Ubuntu.