[plug] nvidia success, debian woody

[John Knight]

G'day all!

After a few days of... semi-hacking (yes, yes, lack of a better word, no 
pedantry OT posts please), I got the binary nvidia drivers, the official 
ones from the website working. In order to do it, I extracted the package 
(run the binary file with the --help option and it'll show it in there, how 
to extract it) and then cd into the new dir and "make install".

Now modify your X config file as directed and save that, X should now run, 
but only for this boot-up I'm afraid. In order to make it permanent, go into 
/etc/modutils and make a new file, anything really, I called it nvidia to 
avoid confusion, and put the following line in there,

char-major-195 nvidia

Do an update-modules just to be safe and reboot and it should work every 
time, sorry if I've missed any steps but I think that's all I did. Anyone 
else game to have a go and see if it works for them too? :)

Cheers!
John

Make lunch, not war.

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