I've installed the latest Nvidia drivers on a Debian Squeeze system and actually have no problems getting them installed and working.
The only thing that is annoying is that when you run the binary, the installer spits out a warning about the kernel being compiled with a different compiler (gcc 4.3 vs gcc 4.4 or something) to what the binary has been compiled with and there may be conflicts (I assume this is because Squeeze is stable and the latest Nvidia driver has been compiled with a newer compiler). You can ignore that warning and go ahead and install anyway (which I've done, and everything is working fine). But I'd like to know more about this so that I can do it properly next time around.
I'm assuming if I want it to work without chucking up this warning, I'm going to have to download the drivers and compile them from source using the compiler on squeeze?
Anyone got any input on this?
Edit: Looking around it appears NVIDIA don't release source code, so your only option is the precompiled binary. Which is a pain. And I don't think the Nouveau alternative is nearly as good for the 670.
Edit #2: Got round it by installing the base system first and immediately doing a kernel upgrade to 3.2 from the backports, then installing xorg, startx to test, download and install latest linux nvidia drivers, startx again to make sure they've taken, then installing gdm gnome-core and network-manager-gnome.
The only thing that is annoying is that when you run the binary, the installer spits out a warning about the kernel being compiled with a different compiler (gcc 4.3 vs gcc 4.4 or something) to what the binary has been compiled with and there may be conflicts (I assume this is because Squeeze is stable and the latest Nvidia driver has been compiled with a newer compiler). You can ignore that warning and go ahead and install anyway (which I've done, and everything is working fine). But I'd like to know more about this so that I can do it properly next time around.
I'm assuming if I want it to work without chucking up this warning, I'm going to have to download the drivers and compile them from source using the compiler on squeeze?
Anyone got any input on this?
Edit: Looking around it appears NVIDIA don't release source code, so your only option is the precompiled binary. Which is a pain. And I don't think the Nouveau alternative is nearly as good for the 670.
Edit #2: Got round it by installing the base system first and immediately doing a kernel upgrade to 3.2 from the backports, then installing xorg, startx to test, download and install latest linux nvidia drivers, startx again to make sure they've taken, then installing gdm gnome-core and network-manager-gnome.
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