https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id258638

I downloaded the netinstall iso, killed my old root partition

I needed to grab nvidia-kernel-common from an x86-32 box that has access to the all architecture and built that package

i installed using the "desktop system" prompt from the installer, and then have installed emacs21, vim, and kde (and everything those things depended on)

installed x-window-system at completion Xprt had a segfault

I built my own nvidia driver, but it wanted to be in 2.6.9 instead of debians 2.6.9-9-amd64, so I symlinked /lib/modules/2.6.9/nvidia to /lib/modules/2.6.9-9-amd64/nvidia

installed nvidia-glx nvidia-glx-dev

the nvidia driver cant find my card, first "nv" is not the nvidia driver, "nvidia" is the nvidia closed soruce drivers

hmm it's also important to make sure that the version of gcc used to compile the kernel matches that of the version used to build the module. (I used gcc-3.3 by default and the debian kernel was built with gcc-3.4)

I went with the ia32 chroot system for running ia32 binaries as hopefully i can still use apt to manage the packages