Extremely urgent request for testing (new Nvidia binary drivers)

[Adam Membrey]

Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> Adam Membrey wrote:
> | Paul Roeland wrote:
> |
> |> Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> |>
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> |>> Hi everybody,
> |>>
> |>> due to some improvments done by nvidia to the new binary drivers,
> |>> i have prepared a new set of linux-restricted-modules to include
> |>> NVIDIA up to 7167.
> |>>
> |>
> |> Happy to report:
> |> this is the first release in a *very* long time from nvidia that works
> |> on older cards (TNT2 M64 in this case)
> |>
> |> glxgears, tuxracer, all work fine.
> |>
> |> Paul Roeland
> |>
> |>
> |
> | Any idea why I'm getting my error message then?
> |
> | I am currently running an amd64, with the AMD64-k8 kernel (2.6.10-5)
> |
> | hmmm, it has me baffled
> |
> | You just added the line to your sources.list, did an update and then did
> | a sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx?
> |
> 
> No you need to pull in also linux-restricted-modules. Just do a simple 
> update.
> 
> apt-get update
> 
> Fabio
> 
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meh, thanks for that but just like the version I compiled myself 7167 
causes my computer to lock (usually when I load kcontrol) or in gnome 
when I use a web browser..6629 gives me no grief so I'm staying put