What package(s) are needed to install nvidia support ?

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Mon Sep 13 16:37:16 CDT 2004


On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:20:05PM -0500, Scott Dier wrote:

> You'll need to install the kernel-headers files and then get the
> nvidia-kernel-common and nvidia-driver source packages from debian
> unstable.  Then, after building them install the module source package and
> build it.

If you use the stock kernel, you don't need to build anything; just make
sure that the 'restricted' component is in your sources.list, and apt-get
install linux-restricted-modules and nvidia-glx. :-)

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 - mdz




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