Re: nvidia_drv in lib64 folder
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 08:54:28AM -0700, Zachary Rizer wrote:
> Well, I went another route (I'm notoriously
> impatient). It succeeded (or so it seems, so far) so
> I figured I'd post here for other people to reference.
> The most recent nvidia packages in debian-am64[sid]
> were version 6229, released back in late April of 05.
> Currently, the version is 7667, released a few weeks
> back. I ran the nvidia-installer from nvidia.com, and
> it actually worked.
Well the most recent packages in experimental are 7667.
So now how will you ever clean up when you want to remove the nvidia
driver? Does the nvidia installer have an uninstall option? Does it
do the right thing? Doing anything that places files in /usr (outside
local) without apt, is just asking for trouble now or in the future.
And it just seems dirty. Why do it the dirty way when the proper way
exists and is rather easy.
> Details:
> [root@fortunato]*[~]$ uname -a
> Linux fortunato 2.6.12-1-amd64-k8 #1 Wed Aug 10
> 03:17:19 CEST 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> [root@fortunato]*[~]$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
> NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86_64 NVIDIA Kernel Module
> 1.0-7667 Fri Jun 17 07:14:03 PDT 2005
> GCC version: gcc version 4.0.2 20050806 (prerelease)
> (Debian 4.0.1-4)
>
> I'm remote, but I modprobe'd the newly installed
> module, and then restarted Xorg (gdm, actually), and
> it started up just fine. No errors, no bad warnings.
>
> I'll see if it'll run ET or Q3 tonight; that will be
> the real test...
Len Sorensen
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