sarge: kernel & gcc version confusion

From: cam (camccuk_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/30/04

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    Hello all,

    I've just moved to debian in the last few days after several years of RH -
    usual reasons. Enjoying it very much so far. I installed woody with bf24 kernel
    from dl'd CD and just put on the most basic system. I used apt-get to install
    x, xfce, mozilla and a few other things.. I then decided to upgrade to sarge
    and did a dist-upgrade.

    I now want to compile the nvidia drivers for my GeForce3 and have found it
    slightly confusing from here. Here are some questions:

    - I installed gcc3.3 because this seemed to be appropriate for sarge from
    discussions I found on the net but I wasn't sure how to tell. Isn't it safer
    that I compile the driver with the same compiler that was used for X and the
    kernel? How do I find this out?

    - When I used aptitude to get gcc, it also installed a set of kernel headers.
    Why is this a dependency for the compiler?

    - Not surprisingly, the nvidia installer wants me to download the kernel
    headers to match my system - why can't I find headers for the bf24 kernel that
    I used initially - presumably becasue I moved up to sarge?

    - I assume it would be easier to just grab a new kernel, headers and everything
    and rebuild the kernel and then the nvidia driver. Is this likely to be
    problematic for other stuff on the system (e.g. X?)

    - Under aptitude there is a wide range of header packages available (not at my
    machine now so I can't remember them, sorry) for a given kernel - what is the
    difference between these? What is the minimum set to do what I want - some
    customisation of the kernel and building of other modules like nvidia?

    Any other advice, pointers etc gratefully received...
    c

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