In order to build (Re)nouveau, you must have libSDL 1.2 installed. The easiest way to do this is using apt-get:
apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev
Installing the following will help you build nouveau.
apt-get install xorg-dev libdrm-dev git git-core libtool mesa-common-dev automake autoconf
The Debian nvidia-glx package (at least the one in Etch) stores the original Mesa libglx as /usr/lib/nvidia/libglx.so.xlibmesa
, which you may want to symlink as /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
to avoid the undefined symbol error.
Running git commands (such as git clone
and git checkout
) may yield the following message:
If you are looking for git, Linus Torvald's content tracker, install the cogito and git-core packages and see README.Debian and git(7). This transition script will be removed in the debian stable release after etch. If you wish to complete the transition early, install git-core and use (as root): update-alternatives --config git Press RETURN to run gitfm
If this is the case, run update-alternatives --config git
as root, and select the /usr/bin/git-scm
alternative (option 1 in the following example):
%) update-alternatives --config git There are 2 alternatives which provide `git'. Selection Alternative ----------------------------------------------- 1 /usr/bin/git-scm *+ 2 /usr/bin/git.transition Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: