Extremely urgent request for testing (new Nvidia binary drivers)

Fabio Massimo Di Nitto fabbione at ubuntu.com
Thu Mar 31 15:46:26 UTC 2005


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Adam Membrey wrote:
| Paul Roeland wrote:
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|> Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
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|>> Hi everybody,
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|>> due to some improvments done by nvidia to the new binary drivers,
|>> i have prepared a new set of linux-restricted-modules to include
|>> NVIDIA up to 7167.
|>>
|>
|> Happy to report:
|> this is the first release in a *very* long time from nvidia that works
|> on older cards (TNT2 M64 in this case)
|>
|> glxgears, tuxracer, all work fine.
|>
|> Paul Roeland
|>
|>
|
| Any idea why I'm getting my error message then?
|
| I am currently running an amd64, with the AMD64-k8 kernel (2.6.10-5)
|
| hmmm, it has me baffled
|
| You just added the line to your sources.list, did an update and then did
| a sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx?
|

No you need to pull in also linux-restricted-modules. Just do a simple update.

apt-get update

Fabio

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