[QCLUG] Nvidia driver

[Mark Riedesel]

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I would highly recommend avoiding the regular installer. It works fine, but
I always found it to be a pain that I had to re-run the installer after
every kernel update (to rebuild the kernel module).

There's lengthy instructions for doing it the "debian way":

http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers


mark


On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Jim Hall <volunteer.jim@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Mark Riedesel <mriedesel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeees, but the steps vary slightly depending on which apt-based system
>> you're talking about :)
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Jim Hall <volunteer.jim@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone have direct experience with installing a propriatary Nvidia
>>> driver (from Nvidia) on an apt based system?
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> Valid point. Distro is Debian Etch. Nvidia has the driver wrapped up with
> an installer that is supposed to be generic (except for SuSE). I was just
> wondering if anyone had used it and what they thought of it.
>
> Jim
>

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