Re: nv vs. nvidia

[paul wise <paul.is.wise@gmail.com>]

> 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.

You can reduce all this stuff to:
apt-get install module-assistant
module-assistant update
module-assistant auto-install nvidia

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Bye,
Paul Wise