nvidia AMD64 howto - worked for me - correction (apologies)!

[Tollef Fog Heen]

* Leon Vismer 

apt-get install nvidia-kernel-common
wget \
http://people.ubuntu.com/~tfheen/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.8.1-3-amd64-k8_2.6.8.1.3-1_amd64.deb \
http://people.ubuntu.com/~tfheen/nvidia-glx_1.0.6111-1ubuntu5_amd64.deb

dpkg -i nvidia-glx*deb linux-restricted-modules-*.deb

The do your steps:

| 6. Add nvidia to /etc/modules
| $ sudo gedit /etc/modules
| -- move to the bottom of the file and add nvidia
| 
| 7. Update the X config file
| $ sudo gedit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
| -- In the Section "Module" part of the file make sure you comment out
| (#) 
| Load "dri"
| Load "GLcore"
| -- and make sure that 
| Load "glx"
| -- is in this section
| 
| -- Then change the graphics device in the relevant section
| -- It would most probably be 
| Driver "nv"
| -- which should changed to
| Driver "nvidia"
| 
| 8. Reboot the machine and hope for the best ;-)

And it should work fine.

Please give me feedback on whether the packages above work properly;
they work for me, they've worked for at least one other person but
could very well receive a bit of testing before I upload them.

(I know that nvidia-settings is broken; that is also pending upload,
no need to file any bugs on that.)

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