On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:41:40PM -0600, Mike Myers wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm still trying to adjust from Gentoo's way of doing things (do it
> manually) to debian's (apt-something) way. So far everything has been
> great, but i'm having trouble finding docs on a couple of issues I'm
> having. Both of them seem related to modules.
>
> First one is with the nvidia driver. It seems like everytime my debian box
> is rebooted, I have to re-apt-get nvidia-glx before I can use xorg. Also,
> GDM doesn't seem to like my 1440x900 (widescreen) resolution and I can't
> seem to do anything about it other than just not use GDM (not that ditching
> it is a big deal).
Hi Mike,
I also run nvidia drivers, etch amd64, and the documentation isn't easy
to track down yet. It comes down to having all the pacakges installed
that you need. Once that's done it really does work. Here's what I
have:
nvidia-kernel-2.6-amd64
the metapackage that depends on the same kernel as
linux-image-2.6-amd64 and on the matching nvidia-kernel modules
nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-3-amd64
nvidia-glx
the xorg driver that depends on the nvidia kernel module
The one you're missing:
nvidia-xconfig
it changes the xorg.conf file to use the nvidia driver and it
ensures that the module is loaded and that everything works as
it should.
Install that and everything should work. By the way, the only two lines
in my /etc/modules file are:
loop
sbp2
Good luck
Doug.
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