On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 12:16 +, Richard wrote
> > the FLOSS nouveau driver doesn't work
> > with old Nvidia cards, even if it's claimed that it should work.
> I've come to the conclusion the nouveau driver doesn't work with new nvidia
> cards as well, as
On Lu, 16 mai 11, 15:03:39, Russell L. Carter wrote:
>
> Not now... I reinstalled from scratch and after spending a few hours
> learning the ins and outs of the udev bug (fix by rm -f /run, hmm) I have
> a brand spanking new installation running nvidia-kernel-dkms successfully.
- current udev in
On 05/16/2011 01:57 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
>> 15/05/2011 20:52, Russell L. Carter wrote:
>>
[...]
>>
>
> Do you have the logs from the upgrade right before the crash, what
> packages got upgraded ?
> In between your different trials you cleaned up thoroughly ? I am
> thinking Nvid
>15/05/2011 20:52, Russell L. Carter wrote:
>
> First, thanks much to the people on the other side of the globe who
> see a new day before me. I have dug deeper and can now get more specific
> about the nvidia blank screen problem. (For the record, I have a
> fixed hardware config that I've trac
I had this happen with recent xorg update from Sid.
Log said that (proprietary) Nvidia driver was no longer compatable with the
new Xorg version. So I ran its installer (version 260) with update which
downloaded and installed version 270 (but did not keep that installer!) and
this works fine.
On 05/15/2011 12:17 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Du, 15 mai 11, 11:56:18, Russell L. Carter wrote:
>> I left out the step of replacing Driver="nouveau" with Driver="nvidia"
>> in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, sorry.
>
> Does this mean that everything is ok now?
Ah, sorry, no, I left out the step of swi
On Du, 15 mai 11, 11:56:18, Russell L. Carter wrote:
> I left out the step of replacing Driver="nouveau" with Driver="nvidia"
> in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, sorry.
Does this mean that everything is ok now?
Regards,
Andrei
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I left out the step of replacing Driver="nouveau" with Driver="nvidia"
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, sorry.
On 05/15/2011 11:52 AM, Russell L. Carter wrote:
>
> First, thanks much to the people on the other side of the globe who
> see a new day before me. I have dug deeper and can now get more specific
First, thanks much to the people on the other side of the globe who
see a new day before me. I have dug deeper and can now get more specific
about the nvidia blank screen problem. (For the record, I have a
fixed hardware config that I've tracked debian-testing on for two
years, and also tracking
On Du, 15 mai 11, 17:58:30, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 15 May 2011 19:57:33 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
> > On Du, 15 mai 11, 11:57:49, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
> >> >
> >> > ¹I didn't know how this thingy worked, it is something I never used
> >> > in openSUSE, the distro I was using be
Russell L. Carter wrote:
Hi Curt,
On 05/14/2011 07:00 PM, Curt Howland wrote:
I've found that I have to re-install the binary Nvidia driver often
after updates, when the X system gets updated, due to changes to
simlinks.
If you're using the Nvidia binary driver, try reinstalling it.
I did th
On Sun, 15 May 2011 19:57:33 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Du, 15 mai 11, 11:57:49, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
>> >
>> > ¹I didn't know how this thingy worked, it is something I never used
>> > in openSUSE, the distro I was using before coming to Debian.
>
> openSUSE should now have DKM
On Du, 15 mai 11, 11:57:49, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
> >
> > ¹I didn't know how this thingy worked, it is something I never used in
> > openSUSE, the distro I was using before coming to Debian.
openSUSE should now have DKMS as well[1]
> I was a great fan of module-assistant, but since d
On Sun, 15 May 2011 14:13:07 +0200
"tv.deb...@googlemail.com" wrote:
Hello tv.deb...@googlemail.com,
> More like "Dell" who first developed it, it is supposed to really
> stands for "Dynamic". I may very well be wrong but I think it appears
You're right; I don't what made me think it was Debia
15/05/2011 12:10, Brad Rogers wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 May 2011 09:23:45 + (UTC)
>> Camaleón wrote:
[snip]
>> ¹I didn't know how this thingy worked, it is something I never used in
>> openSUSE, the distro I was using before coming to Debian.
>
> No surprise there. The D in DKMS stands for "De
On Sun, 15 May 2011 09:23:45 + (UTC)
Camaleón wrote:
> Don't ask me why -maybe due to inexperience-, but the first time I had
Inexperience? You? Unfamiliar, perhaps.
> to deal with the closed nvidia driver in Debian I prefered¹ to not use
> "dkms" and manually pulled the required package
15/05/2011 11:23, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 15 May 2011 10:07:25 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 15 May 2011 08:37:43 + (UTC) Camaleón
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Camaleón,
>
> (replying to your e-mail but also addressed to tv.debian's)
>
>>> Just a quick note on nvidia (or ati) proprieta
On Sun, 15 May 2011 10:07:25 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Sun, 15 May 2011 08:37:43 + (UTC) Camaleón
> wrote:
>
> Hello Camaleón,
(replying to your e-mail but also addressed to tv.debian's)
>> Just a quick note on nvidia (or ati) proprietary drivers: they need the
>> corresponding kerne
On Sun, 15 May 2011 08:37:43 + (UTC)
Camaleón wrote:
Hello Camaleón,
> Just a quick note on nvidia (or ati) proprietary drivers: they need
> the corresponding kernel version package.
Whilst what you say is true, a lot of the agony of installing nVidia
drivers can be done away with by insta
15/05/2011 10:37, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 14 May 2011 14:23:19 -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote:
>
>> I have a system with a fixed hardware config over the last two years
>> that I have kept current with testing through that time. Yesterday's
>> update/dist-upgrade/reboot results in a blank screen
On Sat, 14 May 2011 14:23:19 -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote:
> I have a system with a fixed hardware config over the last two years
> that I have kept current with testing through that time. Yesterday's
> update/dist-upgrade/reboot results in a blank screen when launching X.
(...)
Just a quick
14/05/2011 23:23, Russell L. Carter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a system with a fixed hardware config over the last two
> years that I have kept current with testing through that time.
> Yesterday's update/dist-upgrade/reboot results in a blank
> screen when launching X. I swapped out the GTX285 for
Hi Curt,
On 05/14/2011 07:00 PM, Curt Howland wrote:
> I've found that I have to re-install the binary Nvidia driver often
> after updates, when the X system gets updated, due to changes to
> simlinks.
>
> If you're using the Nvidia binary driver, try reinstalling it.
I did that. I reinstalled
I've found that I have to re-install the binary Nvidia driver often
after updates, when the X system gets updated, due to changes to
simlinks.
If you're using the Nvidia binary driver, try reinstalling it.
Curt-
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On 05/14/2011 04:56 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sat, 14 May 2011 17:23:19 -0400 (EDT), Russell L. Carter wrote:
>>
>> I have a system with a fixed hardware config over the last two
>> years that I have kept current with testing through that time.
>> Yesterday's update/dist-upgrade/reboot resul
On Sat, 14 May 2011 17:23:19 -0400 (EDT), Russell L. Carter wrote:
>
> I have a system with a fixed hardware config over the last two
> years that I have kept current with testing through that time.
> Yesterday's update/dist-upgrade/reboot results in a blank
> screen when launching X.
> ...
You a
Hi,
I have a system with a fixed hardware config over the last two
years that I have kept current with testing through that time.
Yesterday's update/dist-upgrade/reboot results in a blank
screen when launching X. I swapped out the GTX285 for
a GT520 and got identical results. I tried a different
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-09-01 19:40, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>> On Tue September 1 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
installed.. not 4.3.3 and 4.3.4 .. actually I have 4.3.2-1.1
>>> What branch are you running (stable?), and is 4.3.2-1.1 the most
>>> up-to-date version of 4.3 in your branch?
>>
>>
On 2009-09-01 19:40, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Tue September 1 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
installed.. not 4.3.3 and 4.3.4 .. actually I have 4.3.2-1.1
What branch are you running (stable?), and is 4.3.2-1.1 the most
up-to-date version of 4.3 in your branch?
I am running lenny, up-to-date:
unam
On Tue September 1 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > installed.. not 4.3.3 and 4.3.4 .. actually I have 4.3.2-1.1
>
> What branch are you running (stable?), and is 4.3.2-1.1 the most
> up-to-date version of 4.3 in your branch?
I am running lenny, up-to-date:
uname -a
Linux 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP
ii g
On 2009-09-01 04:54, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Thu August 27 2009, Sven Joachim wrote:
you more than likely have 4.3.3 installed, unless you removed it
yourself.
No, if 4.3.4 is installed, 4.3.3 will certainly *not* be installed,
because both versions are included in the gcc-4.3 package.
Sven
On Thu August 27 2009, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > you more than likely have 4.3.3 installed, unless you removed it
> > yourself.
>
> No, if 4.3.4 is installed, 4.3.3 will certainly *not* be installed,
> because both versions are included in the gcc-4.3 package.
>
> Sven
ah, right.. I have gcc 3.3, 3.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 05:38:18PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 16:52:06 Jeff H. wrote:
> > Been thinking of switching to Debian. Does it support Nvidia laptop cards?
>
> The "nv" X11 driver is in the Offical Free-Software-Only Debian package
> repository. I
> From: Andrei Popescu [mailto:andreimpope...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:40 AM
>
> On Thu,27.Aug.09, 14:59:57, Kevin Ross wrote:
> >
> > Of course, VDPAU-enabled players are not yet in the Debian archives.
> All of
> > the above mentioned players I build from source. VDPAU is i
On Thu,27.Aug.09, 14:59:57, Kevin Ross wrote:
>
> Of course, VDPAU-enabled players are not yet in the Debian archives. All of
> the above mentioned players I build from source. VDPAU is in the main
> source tree for those players, so no patching is necessary.
Official archives no, but www.debia
t;> On 2009-08-27 15:38, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >>> On Thu,27.Aug.09, 04:14:50, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> The special steps discussed in the thread are only
> >> required if you want
> >>>>> to get the last bit of hardware acc
to get the last bit of hardware acceleration and 3D graphics.
And, on older nvidia cards, h/w-accelerated MPEG-2 decoding.
... and on newer cards accelerated h264 decoding (VDPAU).
Sadly, no nvidia cards that I know of have *both*.
Ron, are you referring to the XvMC extensions for MPEG-2
; required if you want
> >>> to get the last bit of hardware acceleration and 3D graphics.
> >> And, on older nvidia cards, h/w-accelerated MPEG-2 decoding.
> >
> > ... and on newer cards accelerated h264 decoding (VDPAU).
>
> Sadly, no nvidia cards that I
On 8/27/2009 3:14 AM, JoeHill wrote:
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Hello List,
you can find the new 185.xx series in Sid.
Yeah, that's what I just saw. Unfortunately I get this:
node1:/home/joehill# aptitude -t unstable install nvidia-glx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Readin
On 2009-08-27 15:38, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Thu,27.Aug.09, 04:14:50, Ron Johnson wrote:
The special steps discussed in the thread are only required if you want
to get the last bit of hardware acceleration and 3D graphics.
And, on older nvidia cards, h/w-accelerated MPEG-2 decoding
On Thu,27.Aug.09, 04:14:50, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >The special steps discussed in the thread are only required if you want
> >to get the last bit of hardware acceleration and 3D graphics.
>
> And, on older nvidia cards, h/w-accelerated MPEG-2 decoding.
... and on newer card
On 2009-08-27 22:28 +0200, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Thu August 27 2009, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
>> I have a problem running these methods explained on the wiki. I have a
>> fully updated testing system, running stock 2.6.30-1. The problem is
>> that when module assistant tries to compile, I get t
On Thu August 27 2009, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
> I have a problem running these methods explained on the wiki. I have a
> fully updated testing system, running stock 2.6.30-1. The problem is
> that when module assistant tries to compile, I get that the kernel is
> compiled with gcc 4.3.3 and I have i
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 19:14:49 JoeHill wrote:
> Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> > you can find the new 185.xx series in Sid.
>
> Yeah, that's what I just saw. Unfortunately I get this:
>
> node1:/home/joehill# aptitude -t unstable install nvidia-glx
[...]
> The following packages are BROKEN:
> nvidi
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:43:41 +0300
Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
Hello Γιώργος,
> that when module assistant tries to compile, I get that the kernel is
> compiled with gcc 4.3.3 and I have installed 4.3.4. How do I get over
> that?
Install gcc 4.3.3 if it isn't already and call it explicitly. The usu
On Wed August 26 2009, Kevin Ross wrote:
> The wiki says there are 4 ways of building the kernel module, all of which
> revolve around module-assistant. I use method #5, which is downloading the
> installer from the nvnews linux forum, and running it.
I use sgfxi, from the terminal window.
http:
-the-box, and normally requires no manual intervention
(ie. is automatically set-up on installation).
The special steps discussed in the thread are only required if you want
to get the last bit of hardware acceleration and 3D graphics.
And, on older nvidia cards, h/w-accelerated MPEG-2 decoding
Jeff H. wrote:
> Been thinking of switching to Debian. Does it support Nvidia laptop cards?
For all the specialised discussion within the thread: Ordinary graphics
display (as for documents, web pages, movies, etc) is generally
supported out-of-the-box, and normally requires no manual intervention
Kevin Ross wrote:
From: JoeHill [mailto:joeh...@teksavvy.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:35 PM
Kevin Ross wrote:
Only the legacy 173.xx kernel module is in non-free, even in Sid. If
you
want the new 185.xx series, like for VDPAU for hardware-accelerated
vide
JoeHill wrote:
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
JoeHill wrote:
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Hello List,
you can find the new 185.xx series in Sid.
Yeah, that's what I just saw. Unfortunately I get this:
node1:/home/joehill# aptitude -t unstable install nvidia-glx
Reading package lists... Done
Building d
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>
> JoeHill wrote:
> > Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> >
> >> Hello List,
> >>
> >> you can find the new 185.xx series in Sid.
> >
> > Yeah, that's what I just saw. Unfortunately I get this:
> >
> > node1:/home/joehill# aptitude -t unstable install nvidia-glx
> > Reading packa
What I meant is:
http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/nvidia-graphics-drivers
Jerome
Kevin Ross wrote:
From: Jerome BENOIT [mailto:jgmben...@mailsnare.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:35 PM
Hello List,
you can find the new 185.xx series in Sid.
hth,
Jerome
Really? That's great if
Hello List,
actually what I am doing, given that my box is a Lenny box,
I grab the Sid source and I build the Debian packages with dpkg tools.
hth,
Jerome
JoeHill wrote:
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Hello List,
you can find the new 185.xx series in Sid.
Yeah, that's what I just saw. Unfortunately
> From: Jerome BENOIT [mailto:jgmben...@mailsnare.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:35 PM
>
> Hello List,
>
> you can find the new 185.xx series in Sid.
>
> hth,
> Jerome
Really? That's great if it's true. But I don't see it at
packages.debian.org:
http://packages.debian.org/search?k
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> you can find the new 185.xx series in Sid.
Yeah, that's what I just saw. Unfortunately I get this:
node1:/home/joehill# aptitude -t unstable install nvidia-glx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Hello List,
you can find the new 185.xx series in Sid.
hth,
Jerome
Patrick Wiseman wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Kevin Ross wrote:
From: Patrick Wiseman [mailto:pwise...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 3:49 PM
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith
Jr. wrot
> From: JoeHill [mailto:joeh...@teksavvy.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:35 PM
>
> Kevin Ross wrote:
>
> > Only the legacy 173.xx kernel module is in non-free, even in Sid. If
> you
> > want the new 185.xx series, like for VDPAU for hardware-accelerated
> video
> > playback, you still
Kevin Ross wrote:
> > From: Patrick Wiseman [mailto:pwise...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 3:49 PM
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith
> > Jr. wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 16:52:06 Jeff H. wrote:
> > >> Been thinking of switching to Debia
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Kevin Ross wrote:
>> From: Patrick Wiseman [mailto:pwise...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 3:49 PM
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith
>> Jr. wrote:
>> > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 16:52:06 Jeff H. wrote:
>> >> Been thinking of
> From: Patrick Wiseman [mailto:pwise...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 3:49 PM
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith
> Jr. wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 16:52:06 Jeff H. wrote:
> >> Been thinking of switching to Debian. Does it support Nvidia laptop
> car
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith
Jr. wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 16:52:06 Jeff H. wrote:
>> Been thinking of switching to Debian. Does it support Nvidia laptop cards?
>
> The "nv" X11 driver is in the Offical Free-Software-Only Debian package
> repository. I think the "
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 16:52:06 Jeff H. wrote:
> Been thinking of switching to Debian. Does it support Nvidia laptop cards?
The "nv" X11 driver is in the Offical Free-Software-Only Debian package
repository. I think the "nouveau" X11 driver is also being packaged by a DD
but is not in, or
Been thinking of switching to Debian. Does it support Nvidia laptop cards?
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