Re: nvidia drivers

[Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com>]

Gianfranco Berardi wrote:

> I downloaded the newest drivers from nvidia and installed them.
> As far as I can see, it runs fine. I have a Woody system with the 
> 2.4.18 kernel.
> Recently I tried to add USB support, but borked my system.
> I think I have everything working. About the only thing that wasn't 
> working was the nvidia drivers.
> Should I have apt-get installed them instead? Will there be problems 
> with using something that was not packaged for Debian? Or does using 
> the newer drivers have no effect other than getting the coolest 
> special effects (Quake 3 Arena never looked so nice!).
> Thanks,
> Gianfranco
It won't make much of a difference for the nvidia drivers.

The debian package for the drivers only include the source, which you would
need to compile in exactly the same way.

Usually using a program that isn't a debian package shouldn't be a problem.
The only difference is that you have to configure everything by hand (like
you have to do with slackware (well they have rpm now, but still...)).

Bijan