Re: Getting nVidia to work

2012-07-31 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2012-07-31 04:43, Mark Panen wrote: > Could some please point me to step by step instruction on installing a > nVidia driver for a GTS250? http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers/ and the this http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers/#Use_DKMS as the easiest approach. HTH, ändu -

Re: Getting nVidia to work

2012-07-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 31 iul 12, 10:10:38, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 31 iul 12, 04:43:09, Mark Panen wrote: > > > > Could some please point me to step by step instruction on installing > > a nVidia driver for a GTS250? > > Yes: > > 1. apt-get install nvidia-glx > > (make sure you remove any traces of the

Re: Getting nVidia to work

2012-07-31 Thread Alberto Luaces
Mark Panen writes: > Could some please point me to step by step instruction on installing a > nVidia driver for a GTS250? IIRC: 1. Make a backup copy of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and then remove the original file. 2. Install nvidia-glx package. 3. Stop X server, unload any older nvidia modules a

Re: Getting nVidia to work

2012-07-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 31 iul 12, 04:43:09, Mark Panen wrote: > > Could some please point me to step by step instruction on installing > a nVidia driver for a GTS250? Yes: 1. apt-get install nvidia-glx (make sure you remove any traces of the nvidia installer or any other attempts before that) Kind regards, A

Getting nVidia to work

2012-07-30 Thread Mark Panen
Hi, I am on Squeeze amd64 6.0.5 When Squeeze first came out I managed to install the nVidia driver on one of my other machines using the driver from the nVidia site and not Debian's Wiki way, touch wood it works to this day. Yet on this machine, I failed a few weeks ago using the nVidia driv