On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 14:06 -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Greg Folkert wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:37 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > > Hi Debian!
> > > 
> > > Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86 driver 
> > > (Sarge version)  and the Nvidia closed source driver (I use 6111)?
> 
> nvidia is the better driver 
> 
> > > I have used both and see little difference, except that with the former 
> > > I cannot get glx to work.
> > 
> > About sums it up. Which mean OpenGL won't work and DRI fails as well.
> 
> nvidia install sucks the big one ... ( does an incomplete job )
> 
> to get glxgears ( opengl ) to work, you have to do lots of fiddling
> 
> after several hours of chasing things down .. you need to make sure
> your libraries are from the nvidia-*6111 pkg
> 
> the fixes and libs to check for
>       #
>       # ndividia's installer does NOT replace/remove all of the old
>       # glut libs, so you have to check for it and fix it manually
>       #
>       http://www.linux-1u.net/MotherBoard/X11.nvidia.install.txt
> 
>       http://www.linux-1u.net/MotherBoard/X11.GLUT.install.txt
>       #
>       # create the NEW liblut.* if its missing ( probably is )
>       # from the *.6111 drivers
>       #

Provided you have kernel-image-2.6.8-1-$YOUR_ARCH installed

As root do the following:

        apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.8 nvidia-kernel-source
        cd /usr/src
        tar zxf nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz
        tar jxf kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2
        cd kernel-source-2.6.8
        make-kpkg --config menuconfig configure
                load alternative config
                        /boot/config-2.6.8-1-$YOUR_ARCH
                exit and save
        make-kpkg clean
        make-kpkg --append-to-version -1-$YOUR_ARCH --revision 2.6.8-4 modules_image
        cd ..
        dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-2.6.8-1-$YOUR_ARCH_1.0.6111-1+2.6.8-4_i386.deb

All done. Current revisions available are 6111-1 for
nvidia-kernel-source and 2.6.8-4 for the kernel-image and 2.6.8-7 for
the kernel-source.

Good luck
-- 
greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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