Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > I downloaded the newest drivers from nvidia and installed them. > As far as I can see, it runs fine. I have a Woody system with the > 2.4.18 kernel. > Recently I tried to add USB support, but borked my system. > I think I have everything working. About the only thing that wasn't > working was the nvidia drivers. > Should I have apt-get installed them instead? Will there be problems > with using something that was not packaged for Debian? Or does using > the newer drivers have no effect other than getting the coolest > special effects (Quake 3 Arena never looked so nice!). > Thanks, > Gianfranco > > It won't make much of a difference for the nvidia drivers.
The debian package for the drivers only include the source, which you would need to compile in exactly the same way. Usually using a program that isn't a debian package shouldn't be a problem. The only difference is that you have to configure everything by hand (like you have to do with slackware (well they have rpm now, but still...)). Bijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
