hi all,
i'm running through some AMD64 builds using different distro's for some work I'm doing.
I've been running through the debian build quite well and I've found some nice features with it.
I am having quite a show stopping problem though.
My test machine has an Nvidia 6600 card in it.
I'm following the process for installing the nvidia driver from
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debi...tallation.html
I'm using a stock kernel 2.6.8-11-amd64-generic
I've installed nvidia-cg-toolkit nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-settings
I believe I now have to install nvidia-kernel-common to be able to build a kernel module
the problem I'm having is that the apt repo's I'm using
deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64 testing main
deb-src http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64 testing main
deb ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free
do not contain the nvidia-kenel-common package.
Is this a known issue with the amd64 platform ?
Is there a repo that does contain these package ?
Is there a better way to install the nvidia package on amd64 debian (I realise I could get the package from nvidia.com but for the purpose of my testing I'm trying to follow the correct methods for each distro)
your advice would be greatly appriciated.


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