On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 04:55:43AM -0400, Mauricio Lin wrote: > Hi, > > On 8/18/05, Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 18/08/05, Mauricio Lin <mauriciolin@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > How can I compile and install the NVIDIA driver for kernel 2.6.12.5 > > > without removing the old installed driver for kernel 2.6.12? > > > > I take it you're using the nVidia installer direct from nVidia, not > > the debian packages? > > I am not using any .deb package. > > Well, I do as follow: > > $ sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7676-pkg1.run > > Any comments? > Yeah. Use the .deb package, unless you have a good reason for not doing so. It also allows you to install a new kernel and the new nVidia drivers at the sime time, without a reboot in between. So you can get away with only rebooting once instead of twice. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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