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Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue



On Sat July 28 2007 14:38, David Fox wrote:
> I'm browsing howto's at the moment and attempting to get the nvidia drivers
> (the non-free ones) the "debian" way.
>
> There doesn't seem to be an avalable version of nvidia-kernel-source for my
> particular kernel (I was running 2.6.18-4-k7, but I just upgraded to
> 2.6.21-2-k7

I might suggest that you install the 2.6.22 kernel from unstable. I had 
problems building the kernel module for k7 because of a GPL-only export that 
isn't an issue with 2.6.22 kernels. You can use the 2.6.21 kernel but you 
will need to build your own with paravirt_ops disabled.

> a few moments ago. I'm using
> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/, and
> http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers as reference documents.
>
> There is also no nvidia-glx in testing.

They are in testing, I'm using them now.. :)



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