Re: Prob with nvidia and X11 on pure64bit

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Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 02:15:43PM +0200, Lars Schimmer wrote:
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> > 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.
> >    
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> 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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hi
I am struggling with nvidia drivers on pure 64Bit system.
I cannot find the debian installer that you mention.
Where do i get please. (searched with synaptic and nothing found?)
tks
stan bruno