installation of nvidia drivers

[Mark Shuttleworth]

>We can just import the debian packages or do our own. The main issue with
>nvidia packages is the kernel module, that needs some investigation for
>proper distribution. I personally don't like the way debian does it,
>distributing an entire nvidia-kernel. It would drive Matt crazy for
>security related issues.
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>
We already have some binary-only kernel modules, so these can simply be 
built with those. ATI, Nvidia should definitely be built and be 
available for any kernel we ship. And it should be trivial to use them 
for those who want to.

>Not the autodetection part, but once the drivers are installed a simple
>dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 will show the nvidia driver as available
>and the user can select them without any problem.
>  
>
Why not autodetect too?

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