[ncolug] Re: annual distro marathon
- From: "M. Knisely" <charon79m@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 13:47:47 -0400
As I recall this "you'll have to repeat step 2 in certain situations" used
to be an issue, but it's no longer. The problem that people would run into
is that when they would move to a newer kernel, the kernel module that the
NVidia installer would build would no longer be there. You would need to
rebuild the module by running the installer agian.
With the more recent Linux distros, they use DKMS (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support). When you
install the proprietary drivers using their package managers, they know
that they must rebuild the modules when a new kernel is being installed.
Note that you need to use the distro's "non-free" package repositories to
install and not a tarball though, as I recall.
Mike K.
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Larry DiGioia <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Got all the way through with slightly different hardware this time, it
> didn't miss anything and it looks great! Typing this from icedove, now that
> I know they renamed it!
>
> So, I want my NVidia.
>
> I did the non-free sources. When I go to investigate getting a NVidia
> driver, <http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers> I see this:
>
> Steps 3 and 4 are done for good. However, you'll have to repeat step 2 in
> certain situations. If you don't realize such a situation happens, X will
> fail to start. You can take two approaches with this: either remember when
> this will happen and try to prevent it, or remember to come back here when
> your X fails to start. Either way, you're not done for life. If X fails to
> start because of this, you can again revert step 4 (by choosing a free X
> driver again) and redo it when you want to retry using the *nvidia* driver
> for X.
>
> Me no like, and I am reconsidering putting in the driver. Ubuntu and
> others do not have this problem. Mageia installs the NVidia driver by
> default.
>
> OTOH, how much better is the non-free? Your thoughts? Remember, this is
> still a practice install, we can do whatever we want.
>
>
>
> On 05/22/2013 11:53 AM, Mike wrote:
>
> On 05/21/2013 09:46 PM, Silas Lang wrote:
>
>
> Debian: very tempting, but missed some hardware and a bit slow
>
>
> Prepare to un DFSG your debian box. It's probably appears slow due to the
> free Nvidia driver. Add "non-free" to your main repository in sources.lst,
> apt-get update, apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree, reboot. Enjoy the
> life of proprietary video drivers. This may also account for you other non
> detected hardware.
>
> Mike
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