On Friday 25 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Actually, nv was what the installer picked by default and that didn't > work for me (I was surprised by that, but maybe stable uses an older > version of nv or something). Anyways, vesa worked, and it still does > now, so that's what I'm using. It's nvidia that doesn't work.
Question might be: What card do you have (or on-MB equivalent) in the Thinkpad? Nvidia's newer drivers (and Debian Sid equivalents) do NOT support older hardware. For example, I have a GEForce2 mx400 chipset card and must use the version 96.43.01 driver. I had mixed results in the past using the Debian versions. Once they did not work at all, once I got them working with half!! the frame rate in pengineracer or such. Installing correct versions from Nvidia (their site has dialogs to find which one) worked first time every time. (Caveat: unless you use arguments to their installer to set alternate folders, their libglx.so gets put in the same place as xorg's so when you upgrade xorg, well ... can always move xorg's out of the way and replace with the symlink to the Nvidia one each time this happens.)
