What package(s) are needed to install nvidia support ?

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:

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> Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
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> >It can and did cause headaches. The nvidia driver is splitted into kernel
> >and userland module. First of all loading the kernel module will alter the
> >kernel status (and it is known that was giving problems. see LKML for it).
> >Second we don't want the machine to crash or start behaving weird due to a
> >module that we have no sources and that we cannot fix. The user has to be
> >conscious to do it at his own risk.
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> >
> Yes, but we should make it trivial for that to happen. In other words,
> the user should make an informed decision, but not have to know the guts
> of how to implement that decision.

This can probably be done, it won't make for preview.. probably for final,
but there is Matt and Jeff blessing.

Fabio

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