[nzlug] Dapper Upgrade Experience
Daniel Lawson
daniel at meta.net.nz
Thu Jul 27 17:16:18 NZST 2006
>> Verry odd as i'm on Dapper and I have the legacy driver installed
>> sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-legacy
>>
> nvidia-glx-legacy is the GLX side of things. That works fine, it's the kernel
> modules that I have to build each time. I've managed to distil it down to a
> script, which means I don't have to look up how to do it each time. (this
> script presumes you have have the package nvidia-legacy-kernel-source
> installed already, I should probably make it check that and install it if
> needed):
>
Or you could use the linux-restricted-modules package.
'apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-686' should keep you up to
date with the package, as long as you have a 686 kernel. If you have
another kernel type, eg 386, k7 etc, substitute that for 686
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