Sebastian Haase wrote:
Looking more closely into this I realize I was mistaken -- Randall does put the files in his archives, but his new syntax puts them in a different location, and I don't see them in the directory listings. However, this line gets them: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 directlyExactly. 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. DavePlease point me to a mirror that has the 8178 version for amd64.
deb http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia unstable nvidia-graphics-drivers nvidia-settings nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-xconfig
As you note, they haven't propagated yet for some reason, possibly related to the inclusion of amd64 in official Debian?
There are ways to build Debian packages from nvidia's sources, patched or otherwise, cf. http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/index.html, but Randall packages save you a lot of trouble. Did you manage to uninstall the files created by nVidia's installer?
Dave
--> 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