"Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullr...@loop.de> writes: > Am Montag, 26. September 2011 schrieb Csanyi Pal: >> Brad Alexander <stor...@gmail.com> writes: >> > I believe to install the nvidia driver the Debian way, you need to >> > enable the non-free repositories then install >> > >> > glx-alternative-nvidia >> > libgl1-nvidia-alternatives >> > libgl1-nvidia-glx >> > libglx-nvidia-alternatives >> > nvidia-alternative >> >> Already installed. >> >> > nvidia-common >> >> Have not in the repository (main contrib non-free). >> >> > nvidia-glx >> > nvidia-installer-cleanup >> > nvidia-kernel-common >> > nvidia-kernel-dkms >> > nvidia-settings >> > nvidia-support >> > nvidia-vdpau-driver >> > xserver-xorg-video-nvidia >> >> Already installed. >> >> Still haven't X Window yet. >> >> I'm trying to run nvidia-settings but get error message: >> ERROR: The control display is undefined; please run `nvidia-settings >> --help` for usage information. >> >> Don't know what to do further to get X Window? > > Try the command "m-a a-i nvidia-kernel-source", that should build the > kernel. > You must have the correct environment available. Just call m-a, then > in the menu go through the points like Overview and Update. Make sure, > all necessary kernel-headers are installed.
Yes, I'm sure about the right kernel-headers. I did Update in m-a. > Then you can try the already mentioned m-a a-i > nvidia-kernel-source. If something was missing (like the kernel > headers), then nvidia-kernel-dkms will be built during the download > and installation of the headers. I did 'm-a a-i nvidia-kernel-source'. > Make sure, everything as above is installed. If it still doesn't work, > feel free to ask again. Now when I run startx to try it out I get messages: Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server xinit: connection to X server lost waiting for X server to shut down Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file. I have Xlog here> http://paste.debian.net/132475/ What can be here the problem? -- Regards, Pal <http://cspl.me> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87mxdr14f8.fsf@debian-asztal.excito
