On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:40 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > > Objective: 32 bit chroot Etch on a system with an AMD 64 bit processor. > > Problem: Incorrect video driver for nVidia G70 card. > > > > To start I copied xorg.conf from the primary system - Lenny with an > > x86_64 linux kernel image. The display works fine on the primary > > system using the nv driver. When it failed on the chroot Etch I went > > to the nVidia website and downloaded a program to produce a driver and > > ran it from the chroot Etch. It detected the 64 bit processor and > > aborted. Next I installed and ran nvidia-xconfig. This changed the > > driver from nv to nvidia but when I tried to start gdm it failed with a > > message "Failed to load module 'nvidia' (module does not exist, 0)" > > > > Where can I find and download a binary nvidia driver? > > > > Did you ask this question on the nVidia Linux forum? That's not the best answer to this question, given that there is a Debian way to do this, and it's in the wiki. http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca
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