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Re: Confused: nvidia on AMD64???



Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 06:46:07PM +0100, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
> 
>>I just put a NVidia GeForce FX 5200 into my machine (my Matrox 550 will not work properly with Xinerama after the update to x.org). I followed several howto's (even from the people that wrote it worked, e.g. Stefan Salewski's "NVidia driver successfully installed!" and his link http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html) but I cannot apt-get the nvidia-kernel-source from any of the mentioned repositories. 
>>
>>Is it possible to compile the module on a AMD64 system? Where can I apt-get the packages mentioned in howto above for  AMD64?
> 
> 
> nvidia-kernel-source and other nvidia packages are not in the amd64
> archive last I checked.
> 
> You can get the source version of the package from non-free on any
> debian mirror and build the .deb's from that and they work just fine on
> amd64.
> 

Shouldn't we simply add the binary *.deb files to the pool for
amd64? AFAIK the new packages are no longer experimental, but
unstable.

I could upload the *.deb files, if I get some permission.


Regards

Harri

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