Which Nvidia driver to install?

[Ari Torhamo]

to, 2004-12-23 kello 21:34 -0300, rodrigo ahumada kirjoitti:

> the official driver from nvidia has two parts: the module (nvidia.ko) and 
> the glx (core for opengl libs).
> 
> nvidia-glx.deb it's the second and depends on 
> linux-XXXX-restricted-modules.deb than contains nvidia.ko.
> 
> if you install from nvidia official, you must reinstall nvidia.ko every time 
> you upgrade your kernel, vg "sh NVIDIA-installer-pkg.run 
> --kernel-module-only" (the kernel needs to match version with modules)
> 
> --------
> i got  some issues with the latest drivers from nvidia (X simply hangs), so 
> i used NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg0.run, but that version has no idea 
> about udev, and i got to make dev nodes by hand...


Thank's Markus, Oliver, Felix, and Rodrigo for your replies - damn
Oliver you are fast with the wiki! :-)

It's good to know about possible problems with upgrading the kernel when
using the Nvidia binary driver - I think because I'm a basic user it's
better to avoid causing conflicts. I'll be better install the driver
tomorrow and go to sleep now :-O (yawning :-)

-Ari-