Re: Prob with nvidia and X11 on pure64bit
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 06:57:47PM +0200, Alexander Camek wrote:
> I understand.
> But I found 2 Tutorials for installing the nvidia driver under Debian.
>
> The first one said, you have to apt-get the nvidia-glx-src, but there
> are no sources!
Well things do get outdated after a while (in the case of nvidia-glx-src
that one must be many years out of date.)
> The second one, there was a problem. Because the makefile differed from
> the tutorial (apt-get nvidia-kernel-source)
There is no makefile changes required ever that I have encountered.
That one must ask you to do something really weird.
> So the nvidia installer was the only way, how it worked fine.
apt-cache search nvidia
apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source
zless /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-source/README*
That is THE document on how to do it. After all that is the README
included in the package which trumps all other howto's on the matter.
Of course I have also done it this way:
apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source
m-a prepare -t nvidia-kernel
m-a build -t nvidia-kernel
m-a install -t nvidia-kernel
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 (and pick nvidia instead of nv as
driver).
> Okay this shouldn't be done under Debian, but for a newbie it is very
> difficulty to do that without some informations.
>
> Just my 5 pence.
Len Sorensen
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