According to the release of Linux kernel 2.6.25 on Debian sid, it is time to upgrade my Debian server's NVIDIA display driver (on-board display of FOXCONN 6100M2MA-8EKRS2H). BTW, if combine with official stable release of NVIDIA AMD64 driver v.169.12, the installation will be fail due to not compatible. Currently we have 2 options:
Prepare your Debian sid for driver installation
For sure that I am not talking about the complete and functional installation of X11 (it is just as simple as running tasksel and choose Desktop environment...), but the prepare of gcc. Since Debian sid Linux kernel is compiled with gcc-4.1, the default linkage of gcc to gcc-4.2 will let the NVIDIA driver installer complain with it... So let's handle in a handy method... Remove the default symbolic linkage and relink to the correct version:
rm -rf /usr/bin/gcc
ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-4.1 /usr/bin/gccDon't forget to roll this back after the complete of driver installation:
rm -rf /usr/bin/gcc
ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 /usr/bin/gcc
Option 1: Install with v.169.12
Download the driver from here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_169.12.html
Get the correct version of patch: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=110088
Apply the patch and start the installation with:
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2.run --apply-patch NVIDIA_kernel-169.12-2286310.diff.txt
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2-custom.runOption 2: Install with v.173.08
Download the driver from here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_173.08.html
Start the installation with:
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.08-pkg2.run
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