Re: [AKennedy@bursteinlabs.com: GeForce2 divers for XFree86 4.x/Debian]
Yeah, me too.
Andrew, your best and easiest bet is to see if nvidia has a tarball, or
a single file, the way matrox does. It is very easy with matrox, and if
they don't offer something so simple, then I suggest you write them, and
ask them to try the matrox drivers. :)
* Branden Robinson <branden@deadbeast.net> [001007 18:33]:
> Someone with an appropriate NVidia card want to do this?
>
> I think he's probably talking about NVidia's non-free driver(s).
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Andrew Kennedy <AKennedy@bursteinlabs.com> -----
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> From: "Andrew Kennedy" <AKennedy@bursteinlabs.com>
> To: <branden@deadbeast.net>
> Subject: GeForce2 divers for XFree86 4.x/Debian
> Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 15:46:00 -0700
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> Delivered-To: branden@deadbeast.net
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>
> I was wondering if you could be kind enough to repackage the geforce2
> drivers that are in RPM format into deb packages. I have had no luck
> getting them to install properly. GeForce2 cards really only support
> XFree86 4.x. I really love debian's advantages over other
> distributions but if I can't get X to run it is hard to say this is
> the right distibution. =) So the reality is that I am holding out
> for debian's XFree86 4.x release but in the meantime I want to play
> around with your test packages (which installed fine btw). Also, if
> you were going to do this could you make sure to package the SMP
> version also (I have 2 cpu's). Thanks, I really would appreciate if
> you did this. If not, I understand. Get the final out! =)
>
>
>
> Andrew Kennedy
>
>
>
> [1]http://www.nvidia.com/Products/OpenLinuxDwn.nsf/b99b7f622d429347882
> 568c800771b6c?OpenView&Start=1&Count=30&Expand=2#2
>
> References
>
> 1. http://www.nvidia.com/Products/OpenLinuxDwn.nsf/b99b7f622d429347882568c800771b6c?OpenView&Start=1&Count=30&Expand=2#2
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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