-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 02:15:43PM +0200, Lars Schimmer wrote: > >>I installed a pure 64bit sid on a athlon64 machine with a nvidia graphics >>card. >>Now I took the closed source driver from nvidia and let it built and install >>its >>drivers. >>After that I used to restart kdm and it works. >>Now it seems, X11 has its own lib/X11/lib64 directory for 64bit libs and a >>normal /lib dir for normal libs. But on a pure 64bit machine, that's >>nonsense, or? >>So I linked the nvidia driver fom lib64 to lib and restart kdm, and wit >>worked. >>Kinda problematic for newbies. > > > Do NOT use nvidia's installer. Use Debian's installer and things just > work. Nvidia's installer assumes a redhat'ish filesystem which isn't > how debian does things. > > Running 3rd party installers is a bad habit from windows that should be > exterminated.
So there IS a nvidia package for debian? Til yet there was only a nvidia package on debian with NO 3d support on 32bit, as for I always took the nvidia installer and used 3d support. If there is that debian package and it installs the full nvidia features, it is indeed nice and useful. > Len Sorensen Cya Lars Schimmer - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Technische Universit�t Braunschweig, Institut f�r Computergraphik Tel.: +49 531 391-2109 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key-ID: 0xB87A0E03 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCd0NtVguzrLh6DgMRAiZSAKCWMoMCItSdjLK4FahHBpWFfyi5LQCff+EE N1tGaZhrJZtW1fPUfKWu2L4= =yRKO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
