On Ma, 25 iun 13, 20:21:15, David Christensen wrote: > > I have an older machine with motherboard NVIDIA graphics. Building > and installing the NVIDIA proprietary driver wasn't too hard, but I > have experience with Linux kernel and embedded systems programming. > The kicker was keeping the video driver current/ built/ rebuilt as > it and the Linux kernel evolved.
The Debian packaging of the nvidia proprietary driver is great (at least from my user point of view). On stable (and even testing lately) you have pre-built kernel modules and there's also the dkms package to automatically build your module whenever you install a new kernel (and corresponding headers). Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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