Thanks to everybody. I was trying to get answer from japanese mailing list. The result is that I can use vesa driver (1280x1024, 16 bit) for GeForce4 MX 440. For me it is enough to use X-Window (I don't need Open-GL etc.). If I use backports.org I'm afraid there will be dependency problems in future. Sincerely, askar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 8:17 PM Subject: RE: how to use Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 in Woody > On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 13:43, askar wrote: > > Thank you. > > > > > > Are the nvidia-kernel-common and nvidia-kernel-source included as a > > > > stable package? > > > > > > They most likely are too old. Get the drivers from Nvidia, or get an > > > XFree backport. > > What does it mean to get XFree backport? > > > It means you get a contemporary version of XFree compiled to run on > woody. > > You need to add to your "/etc/apt/sources.list" the location of this > backported package. They can usually be found at http://backports.org/ > or http://www.apt-get.org. > > echo "deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ woody xfree86" >> > /etc/apt/sources.list > > apt-get update && apt-get upgrade > > That should do it (if that is indeed the backport you want. I don't > know: this is an example). > > Mind you, you'd still be working with the Xfree 'nv' driver. I don't > know if having the NVIDIA driver is all important to you or not. You > might try installing the binary from NVIDIA after this, but I have no > idea if that will work or not. > > good luck, > Chris > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
