On Sun, 15 May 2011 10:07:25 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 15 May 2011 08:37:43 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello Camaleón,
(replying to your e-mail but also addressed to tv.debian's) >> Just a quick note on nvidia (or ati) proprietary drivers: they need the >> corresponding kernel version package. > > Whilst what you say is true, a lot of the agony of installing nVidia > drivers can be done away with by installing the nvidia-kernel-dkms > package and associated dependencies. > > Doing that takes care of all the kernel dependant rebuilds of the > driver, meaning that the sys-admin (me) doesn't have to remember to do > it. :-) Don't ask me why -maybe due to inexperience-, but the first time I had to deal with the closed nvidia driver in Debian I prefered¹ to not use "dkms" and manually pulled the required packages which was the method I was more used to. Hopefully, all went ok. And the same goes for my VirtuaBox client. Whenever I have to install or update the "guest additions" I prefer to manually update the kernel headers (which I hope they get automatically updated now that I've installed the kernel meta-package). ¹I didn't know how this thingy worked, it is something I never used in openSUSE, the distro I was using before coming to Debian. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.15.09.23...@gmail.com
