Re: Installing 64-bit nvidia driver under 32-bit userland

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 12/11/08 20:44, lee wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:23:09AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Most places on the web say it doesn't work, but by following the  
> > instruction on this nvnews thread, I got driver v177.82 running on  
> > kernel 2.6.27-1~experimental.1~snapshot.12406.
> >
> > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=112900
>
> That thread refers to 169.12 which is apparently too old to compile
> for newer kernels. 177.82 amd64 works just fine, no different from the
> i386 driver. Afair, 169.12 i386 was the last one to work for UT2004
> until 173.08 or 173.14.12 ...

It started out maybe referring to 169.12.

But I'm telling you, since I was one of the people corresponding in 
the latter part of the thread, that using philipl's technique, I was 
able to get 177.82 working with 2.6.27.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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