Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > 2008/8/16 Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> If I use nvidia-installer to UNinstall the drivers, > > Btw, the installer from nvidia's website doesn't play nicely with > Debian's packaging system, as you have seen. The Debian way to do it > is something like this: > > update-pciids > apt-get install module-assistant nvidia-kernel-source > m-a prepare > m-a a-i nvidia > apt-get install nvidia-glx > depmod -a > modprobe nvidia > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
I don't think the last command will work anymore. It will just ask a small set of questions about the keyboard and the mouse, I think, and that is it. It has stopped asking about display altogether. I have had to actually delete the xorg.conf file to let xorg generate a new file by itself. It appears that xorg.conf does a better job of display detection and the xserver-xorg is thus not dealing with it anymore. So, I have had to manually insert the "nvidia" string to make xorg use nvidia in the recent past. I hope I am not waaay wrong about this. Let me know if I am ->HS > HTH, > - Jordi G. H. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
