Re: Installing Nvidia Drivers in Sarge

[aldebaran]

Toufeeq Hussain wrote:
HI Paul,
 

now here's an additional tip, if you run multiple kernels, the script 
will only install it on one version of the kernel, boo hoo! so that 
means you need to install nvidia everytime you switch 
kernels.  The easy 
hack around this is to extract the the files from the script 
(I forget 
the syntax) and go into the directory and do a make install, 
which will 
install the modules into /lib/modules/<current kernel> for 
you.  You can 
do this for multiple kernels.

Otherwise, if you installed a custom kernel you need to 
compile it the 
debian way.  If more information is needed on this, and your 
efforts in 
searching on the web have failed, drop a line.

   

Thanks for the tip on getting the drivers installed for all custom
kernels.
It was getting to be a pain reinstalling it every time.
Regards,
toufeeq
 

You can also run the script with the -K option, in the nvidia readme it 
says this options makes it keep the old driver when installing the new 
one.  I tried it and it works very well. 

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