> > AFAICT this does not use a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, but a device specific > configuration file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d. Since Xorg in Squeeze > configures > itself automagically it is (IMHO) preferred to manually configure just the > devices that you actually want to configure. > > It might help if I break this command down for you: > > 1. aptitude -r install linux-headers-2.6-`uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,'` > > This installs the kernel headers which are needed to compile the nvidia > module. The `uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,'` command will just expand to > your architecture: > > $ uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,' > amd64 > > nvidia-kernel-dkms > > and this package contains/pulls-in the nvidia driver itself. > This is where the wiki gets confusing. It says I need to Install the NVIDIA X driver and user-space libraries - step 3.
I believe I read somewhere that the nvidia-kernel-dkms also installs the driver and user space libraries. Is this step deprecated? > > 2. mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d ; echo -e 'Section "Device"\n\t > Identifier "My GPU"\n\tDriver "nvidia"\nEndSection' > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf" > > This command will create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf file > with > the following content: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "My GPU" > Driver "nvidia" > EndSection > > which configures Xorg to use the nvidia driver in lieu of the nouveau > one. > > file name "20-nvidia.conf" - is the name arbitrary or does it have to be that exact name? -- Kind regards, Yudi
