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 ev=
ery kernel update (to rebuild the kernel module).<br><br>There's length=
y instructions for doing it the "debian way":<br>
<br><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers">http://wiki.de=
bian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers</a><br><br><br>mark<br><br><br><div class==
"gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Jim Hall <span dir="ltr">&=
lt;<a href="mailto:volunteer.jim@gmail.com">volunteer.jim@gmail.com</a>&g=
t;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, =
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><=
div class="Wj3C7c"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:54=
AM, Mark Riedesel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mriedesel@gmail.=
com" target="_blank">mriedesel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, =
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Yeees, but the steps vary slightly depending on which apt-based system you&=
#39;re talking about :)<br><font color="#888888"><br>Mark</font><div><div=
></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:51 =
AM, Jim Hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:volunteer.jim@gmail.co=
m" target="_blank">volunteer.jim@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, =
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Does anyone have =
direct experience with installing a propriatary Nvidia driver (from Nvidia)=
on an apt based system?<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>Jim<br><br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br><br></div></div>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 ha=
d used it and what they thought of it.<br>
<font color="#888888">
<br>Jim<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>