Re: Confused: nvidia on AMD64???
Hey, to each his own. I was just stating my personal preference but I do encourage others to do the same. If you know how to use a few simple tools like ls and ln you shouldn't have any problems at all with the driver package from nvidia's site. I never have.
I do find it sad, however, that so many people who use debian don't know how to do anything without help from the distro. The last time I was in the IRC channel half of the people there didn't even know how to get kernel source from kernel.org and were entirely dependant on the distribution for their source.
It's my opinion that this sort of depenancy would fall under the "windows like" behavior you mentioned previously. Certainly you wouldn't prefer a bunch of sheeple that don't even know how to build thier own kernels or do something as simple as install video drivers for themselves. I hope that's not were the community is headed.
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:27:01 -0500
lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 02:07:32PM -0600, Michael Langley wrote:
> > I don't know about the rest of the list but there are some things I don't like to depend on my distro for. Kernel source, alsa, and nvidia drivers just to name a few. I just updated the latest nvidia drivers the other day and got them from nvidia.com at the url below:
> >
> > http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
> >
> > They work just fine.
>
> Unfortunately the nvidia installer assumes you run redhat or similar and
> makes a lovely mess of the filesystem. It is highly discouraged to do
> something so windows like to your debian system.
>
> Windows is quite unstable in many cases, and it is often _not_ directly
> microsoft's fault, although encouraging everyone to write their own
> installers and putting files everywhere is their fault. We try to
> encourage the saner approach in debian. This means anything in /usr
> (except /usr/local), /bin, /sbin, /lib, belongs to dpkg/apt and nothing
> else has any business putting files there. If they do, dpkg is allowed
> and expected to overwrite the files at will.
>
> The debian packages for the nvidia driver puts things in the right
> place, uses dpkg so the files won't be overwritten by other things and
> won't overwrite existing files, and it just works and is easy to manage.
> Certainly easier to installing it from the nvidia package.
>
> If you want your system slightly broken, that is your choice. Please
> don't encourage others to repeat it though.
>
> Len Sorensen
>
>
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