Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 06:46:07PM +0100, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > >>I just put a NVidia GeForce FX 5200 into my machine (my Matrox 550 will not >>work properly with Xinerama after the update to x.org). I followed several >>howto's (even from the people that wrote it worked, e.g. Stefan Salewski's >>"NVidia driver successfully installed!" and his link >>http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html) but I cannot >>apt-get the nvidia-kernel-source from any of the mentioned repositories. >> >>Is it possible to compile the module on a AMD64 system? Where can I apt-get >>the packages mentioned in howto above for AMD64? > > > nvidia-kernel-source and other nvidia packages are not in the amd64 > archive last I checked. > > You can get the source version of the package from non-free on any > debian mirror and build the .deb's from that and they work just fine on > amd64. >
Shouldn't we simply add the binary *.deb files to the pool for amd64? AFAIK the new packages are no longer experimental, but unstable. I could upload the *.deb files, if I get some permission. Regards Harri
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