On Wed October 25 2006 06:39, David Baron wrote: > On Wednesday 25 October 2006 13:29, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:31:46PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > > With this install of Debian I decided to stick to what I know, and > > > grabbed the binary installer direct from NVidia. I ran that, and in > > > less than two minutes I was up and running. No complaints from Debian > > > and no complaints from NVidia. Oh, except for one because I had tried > > > to compile it before I updated the system fully and so I had a gcc > > > which didn't match the kernel, but that was fixed in no time. > > > > Apparently the binary installer from NVidia messes with the libraries on > > the system and is not the recommended method for installing. > > > > Read http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/ > > > > The Debian way is certainly a lot easier. Now where has that nvidia-glx > > package gone? > > Nvidia's own gives me twice the frame rate of Debian's nvidia-glx (Sid). > > Nvidia is looking for some Xorg SDK to tell it where to place its module. > Not finding that, it uses the default /usr/lib which means interference > with/by xorg glx packages. Each time you put in new Xorg stuff, simply > rerun their installer. A bit of a bother but as you said, a few minutes. > > Examin their "advanced" options. There may be a way to tell it where to > install the glx stuff. Then simply have xorg.conf check modules there > first :-)
When I (cough) installed nvidia's own installer I installed xorg-dev first so it could figure out where to put stuff. I'm running with an m-a installed module now and am having good results. Wish I had checked the frame rate but it seems to be working well in any case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
