On 10/10/07, Bill Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I was running etch, the directions here worked. But when I try to > install in nvidia-glx in testing, I get the following: > > debian:/home/bill# apt-get install nvidia-glx > Reading package lists... Done
What you may need to do includes getting into the sid repositories for at least the kernel (2.6.22), nvidia-kernel-source, and nvidia-glx. This latter may and probably will bring in other sid components for xorg. I'm running lenny as well and finally bit the bullet and got into sid to get the parts that haven't made it to testing for whatever reasons. Once you have the new kernel, then you can build the modules using module-assistant (auto-install) nvidia-kernel-source. This will build the nvidia kernel module. Once you then install sid's nvidia-glx, you should be home free. It was scary at first because apt wanted to bring in packages and remove others and I wasn't really sure what it wanted to do. So I replied back on the list for a little more help and in the meantime went ahead and completed the install. So now I have a working 3d xorg again (yay). With a few caveats - beryl doesn't want to start right - it wants to rely on something named "dbus-deamon" but it can't start it. So that thing fails (beryl --replace). Compiz (from testing) seems to work fine in some startups but not in others, and has recently seemingly crashed, as when I start kde, I don't get any window decorations at all, so I do a 'kwin --replace' in a konsole to get back to a sane state, without compiz running. (I had compiz setup to start in kde's autostart folder, but I have since removed that entry.) Sometimes, after leaving my system on for a long time, I come back to it to find that I cannot do anything - the screen does not come back, and nothing seems to work, so I end up having to reset the machine. This wasn't the case before. I have an nvidia FX 5200 (128 meg) so there's ample video for compiz and probably beryl (I have been able to at least get a feel for both actually running on my system a few times, but I don't think I'd do it all the time, simply because my box is underpowered (1000 mhz Athlon Tbird) :(. > Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
