David Fox wrote:
I'm browsing howto's at the moment and attempting to get the nvidia
drivers (the non-free ones) the "debian" way.
There doesn't seem to be an avalable version of nvidia-kernel-source
for my particular kernel (I was running 2.6.18-4-k7, but I just
upgraded to 2.6.21-2-k7
a few moments ago. I'm using
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/
<http://home.comcast.net/%7Eandrex/Debian-nVidia/>, and
http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers as reference documents.
There is also no nvidia-glx in testing. There has been some discussion
on the list recently regarding some updates to X.org <http://X.org>
video drivers, which have unfortunately caused my existing nvidia
setup to no longer work, so currently I am using the "nv" driver. From
the instructions it would seem my current card (Geforce FX 5200)
should be supported by the "non-legacy" or regular driver.
According to the testing status page
(http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=nvidia-glx) it would
seem that testing is waiting for the newer driver package, which seems
to be ATM availalbe in sid/unstable.
Question - is it "safe" to retry the nvidia driver at this point? Last
I tried, I ended up with a fairly unusable system and had to renstall
most of X and go back to using the nv driver.
If that is doable, I figure it would be better to do this the "debian
way" and although I posted about this before, I probably would want to
go ahead and add unstable sources to my sources.list and install that way.
Or, I could wait until these are available in testing, but I don't
have a clue low long that would take. (In a previous thread, it was
opined that it would only take a few days or so.)
Hints?
thanks.
Yes, the current kernel will not let you compile the module for the
nvidia drivers. There is a patched driver out that you can use that
will work that gets around this problem:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=88132#88132
This is what happens when you try to run the official nvidia driver
script: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432746
Sam
