On Sat July 28 2007 14:38, 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/, 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 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?
I don't know if this is "the debian way" but this is how I do it. I am running testing with kernel-2.6.22-2-amd64 at the moment but have also run the 2.6.21 kernel until recently along with the nvidia drivers without any issues at all. There are no pre-built kernel modules in testing or unstable, I build them with module-assistant. module-assistant prepare or m-a prepare module-assistant auto-install nvidia or m-a a-i nvidia Also install nvidia-glx and nvidia-glx-ia32 if appropriate. Run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and choose the nvidia driver and set the rest of it up to your liking. If all goes well (and I'm sure it will) restart x and you should be good to go.. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
