Re: More Xorg

[Sjoerd Hardeman <sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl>]

Mark Allums schreef:
> On 3/16/2010 11:42 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > > > Why not use nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source from non-free which
> > > > _are_ available as regular Debian packages?  They do not suffer from 
> > > > the
> > > > problems that you describe here.
> > >
> > > They suffer from other problems.  The main one being that they are
> > > usually uninstallable.  At least, in my experience,
> > > apt/aptitude/Synaptic refuse to install it.
> >
> > Because there is usually no pre-built kernel module¹; you have to build
> > one yourself, e.g. with module-assistant:
> >
> > # aptitude install nvidia-kernel-source
> > # m-a a-i nvidia-kernel-source
> > # aptitude install nvidia-glx
>
>
> Where is this documented, or in other words, how are we expected to know 
> this?
By rtfm: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

Sjoerd

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