can i do this net install over my current installation?

if so how?

You can always update debian by typing apt-get dist-upgrade. This will download all new packages and upgrade your entire box. However for it to configure your box for you, you will have to completley re-install.

hm i better try to compile my own kernel then

One more thing if you do decide to re-install make sure you get the sarge netinstall.

Well if you do decide to compile your kernel be warned it took me about a week of fiddling with my setup to get it enabled. Getting DRI to work is considered one of the hardest tasks to acomplish in linux.


http://enterprise.ece.mcgill.ca/~wentsern/index4.html


This link should help you get on your way.

well i tried configuring my computer 2 weeks until i found out that these devices i needed where taked out of the udev config file some time ago

Well you get the driver from nvidia. Compile it and install it. Then it should show up when u try to configure your kernel. Then enable AGP support in your kernel. After that all kernel stuff should be done with. THen you have to configure X to enable DRI. All you have to do is edit a couple of lines. The hardest part will simply be debugging the situation after you've done everything because it rarley works out the first time you do every thing. It requires a lot of fiddling. But eventually it DOES work.

If getting the nvidia drivers to work is hard, I suggest you get a new distro.

You might not have to compile the driver.

I know that Ubuntu has a package (nvidia-glx) you can apt-get to install the NVIDIA driver and all of its friends. I would assume Debian has a similar package available, though you may need to add a different apt repository to your sources.list.