Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

[lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>]

Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz> writes:

> What do I need to do to use the Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze?

Perhaps you're missing some packages?

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| lee@yun:~/tmp/naming$ dpkg --get-selections |grep -i nvidia
| libgl1-nvidia-alternatives                      install
| libgl1-nvidia-glx                               install
| libglx-nvidia-alternatives                      install
| nvidia-cg-toolkit                               install
| nvidia-glx                                      install
| nvidia-installer-cleanup                        install
| nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-amd64                    deinstall
| nvidia-kernel-common                            install
| nvidia-kernel-dkms                              install
| nvidia-settings                                 install
| nvidia-support                                  install
| nvidia-vdpau-driver                             install
`----

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| lee@yun:~/tmp/naming$ dpkg --get-selections |grep -i dkms
| dkms                                            install
| nvidia-kernel-dkms                              install
`----

There's also the nouveu (or how it's spelled) module which you must not
load when you want to use the nvidia module.