Re: Installing Video Drivers Manually

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

On 2010-03-30 10:10, Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
> 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

Hmph.

I've been installing upstream for *years* with absolutely no 
problems.  Nowadays, I even install a "split" driver on my 32-bit 
distro with 64-bit kernel.

Note that I run Sid and compile my own kernel *from Debian sources*.

The only caveat is that every time mesa gets updated, I must go into 
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/ and rename libglx.so then symlink 
libglx.so.NNN.MM to libglx.so.

Final note: I boot straight to the console, Like God Intended, so 
it's much simpler for me to muck around.

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