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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Can’t you just use Envy =
Legacy to install
nVidia drivers on Debian Etch? <a
href="http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html">http://www.alb=
ertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font =
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qclug-bounces@qclug.org [mailto:qclug-bounces@qclug.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Mark Riedesel<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, February =
03, 2009
11:11 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName =
w:st="on">qclug@qclug.org</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [QCLUG] =
Nvidia driver</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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).<br>
<br>
There's lengthy instructions for doing it the "debian =
way":<br>
<br>
<a =
href="http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers">http://wiki.debian.=
org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers</a><br>
<br>
<br>
mark<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span =
style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Jim Hall <<a
href="mailto:volunteer.jim@gmail.com">volunteer.jim@gmail.com</a>> =
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span =
style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Mark Riedesel <<a
href="mailto:mriedesel@gmail.com" =
target="_blank">mriedesel@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span =
style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Yeees, but the steps vary slightly depending on which apt-based =
system
you're talking about :)<br>
<font color="#888888"><span style='color:#888888'><br>
Mark</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span =
style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Jim Hall <<a
href="mailto:volunteer.jim@gmail.com" =
target="_blank">volunteer.jim@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Does anyone =
have direct
experience with installing a propriatary Nvidia driver (from Nvidia) on =
an apt
based system?<br>
<font color="#888888"><span style='color:#888888'><br>
Jim</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span =
style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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.<br>
<font color="#888888"><span style='color:#888888'><br>
Jim</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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