Re: nvidia-glx won't install
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 05:14:51PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 12 Jun 2001, Anthony Fox wrote:
> > "Jonathan David Wheelhouse" <whsjnd@froggy.com.au> writes:
> >
> > > An apt-get update & dist-upgrade got the newer nvidia-kernel-src and
> > > nvidia-glx-src packages(1.0.1251-1). I ran the build scripts
> > > (ie. make-kpkg modules-image & dpkg-buildpackage -us uc
> > > respectively) but dpkg -i on the nvidia-glx deb gave a missing
> > > xlibmesa-dev problem.
> > >
> > > Can somebody help (I want WindowMaker back!)?
> >
> > I am not sure about your specific problem, but I have always used
> > Nvidia's makefiles rather than debian's package management to install
> > glx and kernel modules. Have you tried getting the nvidia-glx tarball
> > and doing a `make install`?
> >
> > -Anthony.
> >
> >
>
> My experience is similar. I couldn't get the deb stuff to work but the
> virgin Nvidia tarballs worked perfectly.
>
> Anthony
>
Sorry for the tardiness; my ISP went down for a couple of days.
Yes, I've got both ways to work before. Now I've reverted to nvidia's
way; it seems much simpler and WindowMaker is back! :)
Jonathan
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