On 2010-03-16 16:35 +0100, Mark Allums wrote: > On 3/16/2010 9:46 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Yes, the proprietary nvidia binary driver is another possibility. It's >> great when it works, but it breaks often with maintenance to X or >> the kernel. > > It always requires reinstalling with kernel ABI changes, because it > requires a kernel module compiled for the running kernel. That also > makes it hard to run a different kernel and switch between them. A > change to X also usually require a reinstall, and often a new version > of the driver, as changes to X often *do* break the driver.
This does indeed happen sometimes, but if you use the latest version of the Nvidia driver, it is usually compatible with released version of X. Of course, if you want to run experimental pre-release version of X.Org you run into problems more often. > A real problem is that Debian is not compatible with the proprietary > driver. Routine system maintenance overwrites files and ruins > configurations, requiring reconfiguration. The proprietary driver is > not packaged like a regular Debian package, and is not installed "in > the Debian Way". This has up to now been mostly harmless, but things > could be better. Why not use nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source from non-free which _are_ available as regular Debian packages? They do not suffer from the problems that you describe here. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/873a0045di....@turtle.gmx.de
