Zachary Rizer wrote: >--- Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > > >>Why do it the dirty way >>when the proper way >>exists and is rather easy. >> >> > >It "exists" in experimental. sid's nvidia packages, >otoh, have been stale since May. That's unacceptable. > And, correct me if I'm wrong, but that's because all >of the nvidia packages were removed from Debian >because of the removal of non-free? Unless I had that >wrong, but that was a matter of discussion months back. > >
1. Non-free was never removed from Debian 2. You can get packages not on your mirror from packages.debian.org/<package_name> so, packages.debian.org/nvidia-glx Now, there is no Amd64 binary packages in experimental, so, grab the sources (see page above) cd /tmp then for each of the above, wget <URL> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-graphics-drivers_1.0.7667-3.dsc http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-graphics-drivers_1.0.7667.orig.tar.gz http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-graphics-drivers_1.0.7667-3.diff.gz Then do dpkg-source -x nvidia-graphics-drivers_1.0.7667-3.dsc cd nvidia-graphics-drivers* fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage cd .. and you have ALL of the debs ready to install. You'll have to build your own nvidia kernel module (as always) after installing the nvidia-kernel-source package, but that is really not a problem. Hell of a lot less messy than using the nvidia installer which messes up virtually the entire Xorg installation. - Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
