Re: Nvidia driver -why so hard to install?
On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 09:45, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Hello all,
>
> I just received a set of SuSE cd's from a friend of mine who's now using
> mandrake
>
> So I installed it, and during the installation there was a question about
> wich driver to use for my geforce2 mx. There was also a possibility to
> enable 3d acceleration. I turned it on and finished the installation. When I
> logged in at kde 3.0.5 and started tuxracer to test the 3d capabilities IT
> WORKED :D
>
> I didn't had to compile modules, kernels and all that stuff - it just works.
> It's using kernel 2.4.20, maybe is that te problem in debian ( I don't know
> how to do a kernel upgrade ). I don't like SuSE (too much wizards), but it's
> easy to use nvidia cards - and I like that
>
> But why is it in SuSE 8.1 easy and painless but so hard in debian woody?
Hmmm, the driver 1.0-4349 installed pretty darned easy on my system.
Just follow the directions at http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux
You'll have to exit out of X, first, though.
Just this morning, I upgraded to v1.0-4363, using
#nvidia-installer --update
The whole thing is no harder than typing
#apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
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