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

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 08:10:37PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen 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:
> 
> | 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"

This step (and more, I think) is be automated by nvidia-glx-config, as
documented here:

http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/BinaryDriverHowto

So that with your amd64 nvidia driver packages, the procedure should be
exactly the same as documented for i386.

-- 
 - mdz