Re: Prob with nvidia and X11 on pure64bit
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 02:15:43PM +0200, Lars Schimmer wrote:
> I installed a pure 64bit sid on a athlon64 machine with a nvidia graphics card.
> Now I took the closed source driver from nvidia and let it built and install its
> drivers.
> After that I used to restart kdm and it works.
> Now it seems, X11 has its own lib/X11/lib64 directory for 64bit libs and a
> normal /lib dir for normal libs. But on a pure 64bit machine, that's nonsense, or?
> So I linked the nvidia driver fom lib64 to lib and restart kdm, and wit worked.
> Kinda problematic for newbies.
Do NOT use nvidia's installer. Use Debian's installer and things just
work. Nvidia's installer assumes a redhat'ish filesystem which isn't
how debian does things.
Running 3rd party installers is a bad habit from windows that should be
exterminated.
Len Sorensen
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