On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:59 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > I am running Sid, and have just switched my video from Intel on-board > to a NVIDIA based GE 5200.
I would recommend to use the DKMS [0] packages to install the proprietary driver for nvidia cards. Which package? ============== Depending on your chipset you need one of the following packages: 1. nvidia-kernel-dkms 2. nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-dkms 3. nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-dkms 4. nvidia-kernel-legacy-71xx-dkms (only in sid) You can check the list of supported chipsets on the nvidia page to find which driver supports your card. http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/260.19.36/README/supportedchips.html http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/195.36.24/README/supportedchips.html Installation and Configuration ============================== The installation of the dkms driver is more or less the same for each of these pacakges. Enable non-free sources ----------------------- Make sure that each deb/deb-src lineends in "main contrib non-free". So, for example, the following line: deb http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ squeeze main should be changed to: deb http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free Note that "contrib" is not really needed, but you might want to add it nonetheless if you plan to install packages like "flashplugin-nonfree". You can learn more about the "cdn" mirror at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGeoMirror Package installation -------------------- Change the "nvidia-kernel-dkms" package to the one you actually need. # aptitude -r install linux-headers-2.6-`uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,'` nvidia-kernel-dkms Configuration -------------- The Xorg version in squeeze is most elegantly configured by using an empty, or rather nonexisting, /etc/X11/xorg.conf and by using device specific config snippets in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d. Every file whose filename ends in ".conf" is included. So you basically do the following: # mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d (if it does not exist) # $EDITOR /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf With the following content: --- snip --- Section "Device" Identifier "My GPU" Driver "nvidia" EndSection' --- snip --- Notes ===== Using the DKMS approach has the advantage that the module will be compiled whenever you install a new kernel. I can understand that you find the wiki page a bit confusing, but hope that you can follow my instructions. This is the procedure we typically recommend in #d these days. Have a nice day [0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland <wolodja.wentl...@ed.ac.uk> : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC
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