Installing nVidia drivers?
Hey;
I'm running Sid on a computer with an nVidia graphics card. It
works fine with the Vesa driver for every day use, but anything
graphically intense runs really really slow... so, of course, I want to
install the nVidia drivers. I installed the packages from non-free, and
made nVidia's required changes to the XF86Config-4 file, but it gives me
errors when I try to start X. I'm using Kernel 2.4.27 (Seemed that the
nVidia kernel module was designed for it, so I'm not using 2.6.10 though
I have it installed).
I tried downloading the driver direct from nVidia's website, but it
said it couldn't find a driver for my kernel and would have to compile
from source, and then couldn't find my source tree. I installed the
kernel-source packages for both 2.4.27 and 2.6.10, and could try letting
it compile from source, but I'm still bunked as to why the binary
packages didn't work from the mirrors.
Basically I installed the nVidia deb packages for my
kernel... what else do I need to do to get them working?
Thanx,
SigmaX
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