On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 05:41:33AM -0500, Haines Brown said > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 07:26:40AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey said Be careful trimming attributions, you don't want to be held responsible for something I said ;-) > > 3) get the non-free binary-only nvidia drivers. The "nvidia-glx-src" > > and "nvidia-kernel-src" packages make this rather easy. This is only > > an option on x86, however. > > Rob, I follow you on points 1 and 2, but not 3. The nVidia has > completely changed its driver policy, and now everything (driver, > installation utility) comes in one self-expanding .run file. And this > driver supports a range of their cards, including all the GeForces. So > it's very simple now. What you do is to use a (downloaded or > automatically compiled) interface to mediate the relation of your > driver and kernel. I'm aware of this, but the Debian packages download and bulid the driver for you, and the result is a pair of .debs. These .debs will be easily removable in the future, and will also handle loading the kernel module, and won't let X stomp over your Nvidia driver. > Further, it is apparently free. Or at least I downloaded and installed > the driver on woody and have not paid yet ;-). The driver's name is > "nvidia." Colin handled this quite adroitly. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: unclassified IRA government Perl-RSA undercover espionage
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