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

[Mike Coddington]

On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 20:10:37 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at raw.no> wrote:
> * 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.)

YEAH DUDE! Those debs did the trick on my machine, amd64 K8 with a
Geforce 6800. I'm writing this from that system, actually.

As far as the other approach goes, installing gcc helped (duh, of
course, I feel dumb) but that shell script just gave me a bunch of
errors. I think there was a path problem or something. I was root when
I ran it, I know that much, so I don't think it was a permissions
thing.
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