Re: Silly problem with binary kernel modules

["Richard W. Knight" <rick_knight at rlknight dot com>]

Andreas Lundin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to help a friend install the fglrx drivers on his debian etch 
> opteron system. Everything runs smoothly until we try to install the binary 
> kernel modules. I simply don't know how to get apt-get to install them (I use 
> gentoo, and I'm not very familiar with debian).
>
> We tried various combinations of "apt-get install fglrx-kernel-<every thing we 
> could think of>" but couldn't get it to install, it just complained on not 
> find the packages. apt-cache search fglrx didn't turn up anything interesting 
> either. So how do I do it?
>
> He's running an unmodified kernel-2.6.12-1-amd64-generic kernel.
>
> cheers,
> Andreas Lundin
>  
I think the FGLRX stuff is in debian rstricted. Try to find a debian 
"sources.list" with the restricted repositories for his flavor of debian 
and replace his sources.list with the new one, then run "sudo apt-get 
update". Then try to find the FGLRX stuff again with "sudo apt-cache 
search fglrx".

Good Luck
Rick Knight