Debian's Nvidia binary drivers from Synaptic don't work?

[NothingMuchHereToSay]

I've never had luck with the drivers from Nvidia in synaptic. Basically, when I launch TF2 using the drivers from Nvidia (su sh nvidia-drivers) it works flawlessly, however, when I uninstall the binary from the Nvidia website and install the synaptic packages, I can't get anything to launch, I even installed the ia32-libs packages and the GLX-32 libraries from Synaptic, I just don't understand why I can't get anything to launch. For multiarch, I've tried the OpenCL i386 stuff, but if I try to install other stuff like "nvidia-glx" it will uninstall the 64bit libraries.

I've had this problem since Debian Squeeze, I've upgraded to sid to get all of the updates to get rid of a bug that severely hurts gameplay in TF2. I've even tried to switch from Auto to Manual mode for the nvidia module.

sudo update-alternatives --config glx

There are 2 choices for the alternative glx (providing /usr/lib/glx).

Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
0 /usr/lib/nvidia 100 auto mode
1 /usr/lib/mesa-diverted 5 manual mode
* 2 /usr/lib/nvidia 100 manual mode

Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:

My specs:

Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz; stock speed
3GB DDR2 RAM
Nvidia GeForce 9800GT

Any help would be appreciated.

[vitamin]

So why are you asking it here? Obviously it's some problem with debian packages. Not Wine or nVidia drivers.

[PeterB]

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,

nvidia-glx is the right package for your card. You don't need 'alternatives'. However, for Multiarch, the 32 bit Nvidia drivers for 64 bits systems are currently broken on Wheezy/Sid.

See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640499

The bug thread there includes a patch, and links to private Debian binary packages that help resolve the problem. http://twolife.be/debian/todo/xvmc/

ia32libs will need to be removed in order to install the multiarch 32 bit packages. I could not install the multiarch package ia32-libs-i386:i386 either, so installed some of the dependent libraries separately. There are lots of them & I don't know which ones are critical. Right now, multiarch seems to me to be a work in progress.

Regards,
Peter

[NothingMuchHereToSay]

Thank you sir, will it be fixed anytime soon?

[PeterB]

Should be fixed now.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-a ... 00005.html
"...the multiarch goal has been sucessful, i.e. ia32-libs has been removed."


PB