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Re: nvidia drivers



On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 17:16, 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
> 
If you changed the kernel you need to remake and install the drivers
again. The commercial driver has never failed me. I would never concider
using the free ones. Opengl support is much much better with the
commercial ones.
Kenneth


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