Re: Bug#257375: nvidia-graphics-drivers: please add AMD64 support
Hi Frederik, Randall and the list,
i did some work to include the amd64 driver in the nvidia package:
http://www.w3r3wolf.de/debian/nvidia/
Its still not 100% because i dont know exactly what to do with the ia32 libs.
I just packaged them into a -ia32 package under /emul/ia32-linux.
Everything else should hopefully work.
Markus Benning
(threepwood on irc)
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 02:39:43AM +0200, Frederik Schueler wrote:
> Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers
> Version: 1.0.6106-3
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hi Randall,
>
> since NVidia released the same version of their drivers for both i386
> and amd64, I think this is a good opportunity to ask you for amd64 to
> be supported as well by your packages.
>
> I had no time to look how to adapt the existing source package to
> accomplish this in detail, but I think it should be rather trivial:
> get the matching *.run depending on DEB_BUILD_ARCH, and for amd64,
> copy the 64bit libs to /usr/lib and the additionally provided 32bit
> libs to /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/ - creating a new nvidia-glx-compat
> package, wich has to depend on ia32-libs [amd64].
>
> Concerning TLS libs, debian-amd64 ships by default with a 2.6 kernel
> because 2.4 support backport is limited, running a 2.4 kernel is not
> recommended at all on amd64 systems.
>
> These are only my own ideas on how to merge amd64 support into the
> existing packages, adding debian-amd64@l.d.o to the CC list for further
> discussion, as far as needed.
>
> With kind regards
> Frederik Schueler
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