On Sun, 15 May 2011 09:23:45 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Don't ask me why -maybe due to inexperience-, but the first time I had
Inexperience? You? Unfamiliar, perhaps.
> to deal with the closed nvidia driver in Debian I prefered¹ to not use
> "dkms" and manually pulled the required packages which was the method
> I was more used to. Hopefully, all went ok.
I was glad when DKMS came along as it meant I didn't have to turn the X
server off to perform the necessary incantations to get the latest
nVidia driver installed and working. This mainly because, at that time,
I didn't understand xorg, kernel modules and so forth well enough to get
myself out of trouble, if the worse happened.
I'm no expert now, but at least I have an idea of what to do. Also,
I've now got a spare machine to get online with to search/ask for
assistance, if it's required.
> headers (which I hope they get automatically updated now that I've
> installed the kernel meta-package).
If they don't, file a bug report. :-)
> ¹I didn't know how this thingy worked, it is something I never used in
> openSUSE, the distro I was using before coming to Debian.
No surprise there. The D in DKMS stands for "Debian", after all. :-)
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