On Mar 15, 1:48 am, Geico Caveman <spammers-go-h...@spam.invalid>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using Debian Etch. I need to update my nvidia drivers but the debian
> drivers are fairly old for etch. I want to be able to create nvidia-*
> debian packages from the nvidia driver downloaded from nvidia's website. I
> regularly use checkinstall for creating debian packages but that presumes
> a ./configure/make/make install type of work flow.
>
> How are the nvidia packages in non-free created, btw. ?

Please do search on http://wiki.debian.org/ where there is a large
page where three different ways of installing video drivers for nVidia
is described. You should be abel to find a good way of installing
nVidias binary driver there, that suits you.

Good luck