nvidia-common package problem

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 10:27:21AM -0400, Russell Reiter wrote:
>  If you want to have another go at it, have a look at the link below
> on using unstable source and backporting Nvidea. Here's a blurb from
> the page.
> 
> On debian testing you are now advised to use this method:
> 
> update-pciids
> apt-get install module-assistant nvidia-kernel-source

nvidia-kernel-dkms is much preferable to nvidia-kernel-source (and
module-assistant) these days.  Much simpler to use, less work, just does
the right thing on kernel updates and such.

> m-a prepare
> m-a clean nvidia
> m-a a-i nvidia
> apt-get install nvidia-glx
> depmod -a
> modprobe nvidia

In which case you skip all that.

> # This is only necessary if you start to use nvidia for the first time:
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Except that doesn't do anything useful anymore.

> The above is from
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/nvidia.html

That hasn't been updated in over 2 years.

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