On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 14:06 -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Greg Folkert wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:37 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > > Hi Debian!
> > >
> > > Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86 driver
> > > (Sarge version) and the Nvidia closed source driver (I use 6111)?
>
> nvidia is the better driver
>
> > > I have used both and see little difference, except that with the former
> > > I cannot get glx to work.
> >
> > About sums it up. Which mean OpenGL won't work and DRI fails as well.
>
> nvidia install sucks the big one ... ( does an incomplete job )
>
> to get glxgears ( opengl ) to work, you have to do lots of fiddling
>
> after several hours of chasing things down .. you need to make sure
> your libraries are from the nvidia-*6111 pkg
>
> the fixes and libs to check for
> #
> # ndividia's installer does NOT replace/remove all of the old
> # glut libs, so you have to check for it and fix it manually
> #
> http://www.linux-1u.net/MotherBoard/X11.nvidia.install.txt
>
> http://www.linux-1u.net/MotherBoard/X11.GLUT.install.txt
> #
> # create the NEW liblut.* if its missing ( probably is )
> # from the *.6111 drivers
> #
Provided you have kernel-image-2.6.8-1-$YOUR_ARCH installed
As root do the following:
apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.8 nvidia-kernel-source
cd /usr/src
tar zxf nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz
tar jxf kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2
cd kernel-source-2.6.8
make-kpkg --config menuconfig configure
load alternative config
/boot/config-2.6.8-1-$YOUR_ARCH
exit and save
make-kpkg clean
make-kpkg --append-to-version -1-$YOUR_ARCH --revision 2.6.8-4 modules_image
cd ..
dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-2.6.8-1-$YOUR_ARCH_1.0.6111-1+2.6.8-4_i386.deb
All done. Current revisions available are 6111-1 for
nvidia-kernel-source and 2.6.8-4 for the kernel-image and 2.6.8-7 for
the kernel-source.
Good luck
--
greg, greg@gregfolkert.net
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