[vox-tech] Debian configuration: X and modem and zip: all resolved!

Ken Bloom kabloom at ucdavis.edu
Mon Jul 26 15:55:46 PDT 2004


On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:33:11PM -0700, Richard Harke wrote:
> On Monday 26 July 2004 10:31 am, ashleigh smythe wrote:
> > going to worry about it - if I need 3D it sounds like I can get a driver
> > from nvidia, but I wasn't too clear on how/where it should get installed
> > if I can't use the Debian package management system to do it (since it's
> > proprietary nvidia stuff).
> Debian now has the Nvidia drivers. I think they are partly in "contrib"  and
> partly in "non-free". Which is a little bit of a nuisance in that if yours 
> sources.list doesn't reference both categories, it will look like the package
> is broken. This is just for testing and unstable, however. I'm sure there
> not in stable (woody) Also they are not the latest. I don't think they will
> work with 2.6.x kernels.

Current version in sid is 1.0.6106-3. It works just fine with my 2.6.7
kernel and my nvidia card, and udev.
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