Re: Installing Video Drivers Manually
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Carlos Mennens <carloswill@gmail.com> wrote:
> For Debian users is there a suggested and correct method for
> installing nVidia drivers on their desktop systems? I was told by
> other distributions I should only use their respected package manager
> to use the nvidia drivers listed in their repository and avoid using
> the binary I downloaded from nVidia's site because this would cause
> problems. Do you have any suggestions about downloading the installer
> direct from nVidia and installing it manually rather than using
> 'Apt-Get'?
>
> Thanks for any info!
>
>
The nvidia installer from upstream will give you issues. In debian we
use module-assistant to install things such as this. You can find a
detailed guide specific to nvidia drivers here:
http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
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Jordan Metzmeier
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