Re: nvidia building from source (2.6.15)
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 17:12, David Liontooth wrote:
> Jo Shields wrote:
> > Sebastian Haase wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 05 April 2006 13:38, you wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 12:05:57PM -0800, Sebastian Haase wrote:
> >>>> Thanks for the reply. (Just for reference I just found
> >>>> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-sourcehandling.en.html
> >>>>
> >>>> BUT: In all places I found (including
> >>>> http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia/...) there seems to be only
> >>>> version 7174 for AMD64
> >>>> AND then I always get complains from the debian/rules scripts that
> >>>> essentially say that they only work with the kernel-headers
> >>>> packages but
> >>>> not with linux-headers ...
> >>>>
> >>>> What needs to be fixed to get "anything" of nvidia to work with lthe
> >>>> inux-headers package ?
> >>>
> >>> Works for me with linux-headers. At least 8178-3 does.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the reply - as I said the only 8178 I found claimed to be
> >> only for i386.
> >> Now, I went to the nvidia web site and got their driver-installer
> >> script (appr. 9MB) -- it worked right-away (I followed instructions
> >> from
> >> http://wiki.serios.net/wiki/Debian_NVIDIA_proprietary_display_driver_ins
> >>tallation)
> >>
> >> Only concern of course now is that I would like to know where the
> >> hell this script put its (glx / module / X ) files .... !?!?!?
> >
> > All over the place. Which is why you NEVER use the stuff from
> > nvidia.com directly
>
> Exactly. That said, I think there may be an uninstaller in the package
> now? BTW, although Randall Donald says he puts his packages on his own
> repository at http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia, he hasn't done
> that since December. The main repositories get them, though.
>
> Dave
Please point me to a mirror that has the 8178 version for amd64.
--> I'm already starting to have problems with building GL programs (it seems
like a "gl.h" mixup after installing xlibmesa-gl-dev ...)
So I'm looking for a NVIDIA deinstall script (it seems all NVIDIA files have
the same creation date ...)
Thanks (I'm back ...)
- Sebastian Haase
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