Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-22 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:10:03 +0100 Frank McCormick wrote: > Anyone have a link to a good tutorial? http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.html http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers -- CK INGREDIENTS: Bleached Wheat Flour, Sugar, Salt, Water, Vegetable Oil, Soy

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 feb 11, 21:47:47, Brian wrote: > > > > Does this count? > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23705 > > This isn't a bug in nouveau but I can appreciate the impact of 96 dpi in > some situations. The user could adopt various approaches to alleviating > the problem. For exampl

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-21 Thread Brian
On Mon 21 Feb 2011 at 14:51:00 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 19 feb 11, 20:10:28, Brian wrote: > > > > With NVidia the almost automatic response is to dive into the proprietry > > driver pool. It seems to me that unless 3D is a need (used by less than > > 5% of users) or the card is not s

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 19 feb 11, 20:10:28, Brian wrote: > > With NVidia the almost automatic response is to dive into the proprietry > driver pool. It seems to me that unless 3D is a need (used by less than > 5% of users) or the card is not supported well, you are going to be > served well by the nouveau driver.

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 19 feb 11, 12:43:23, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > > >After I posted to the list I found > >http://linuxinside.blogspot.com/2008/03/debian-nvidia-drivers.html > > > from a text-based terminal ( CTRL-ALT-F1), you run: > # sgfxi -c > > and it runs & pulls in the headers for you & installs the la

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 14:34:41 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/19/2011 02:10 PM, Brian wrote: >> >> With NVidia the almost automatic response is to dive into the proprietry >> driver pool. It seems to me that unless 3D is a need (used by less than >> 5% of users) or the card is not supported wel

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:43:23 -0500 Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:11:29 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: After I posted to the list I found http://linuxinside.blogspot.com/2008/03/debian-nvidia-drivers.html from a text-based terminal ( CTRL-ALT-F1), you run: # sgfx

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:43:23 -0500 Paul Cartwright wrote: > > > > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:11:29 + (UTC) > > Camaleón wrote: > > > > > > After I posted to the list I found > > http://linuxinside.blogspot.com/2008/03/debian-nvidia-drivers.html > > > > > from a text-based terminal ( CTRL-ALT

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/19/2011 02:10 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 13:23:22 -0500, Frank wrote: Like I said, might have been an illusion - I have 3 distros on this computer..Sid - Ubuntu Maverick and Ubunty Natty...I have left Maverick with the Nouveau driver so we'll see. I am undecided what to do

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 13:23:22 -0500, Frank wrote: >Like I said, might have been an illusion - I have 3 distros on > this computer..Sid - Ubuntu Maverick and Ubunty Natty...I have > left Maverick with the Nouveau driver so we'll see. I am undecided > what to do with Natty...I mean it's already

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Wolodja Wentland
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? == Dep

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:11:29 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: After I posted to the list I found http://linuxinside.blogspot.com/2008/03/debian-nvidia-drivers.html from a text-based terminal ( CTRL-ALT-F1), you run: # sgfxi -c and it runs & pulls in the headers for you & installs the latest

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Frank
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:14:14 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:34:31 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:11:29 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > > >> > Anyone have a link to a good tutorial? > >> > >> http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers > >> >

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Frank
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:56:51 + Brian wrote: > On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 12:34:31 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:11:29 + (UTC) > > Camaleón wrote: > > > > > > Anyway, have you tried first with "nouveau"? > > > > That's the first thing I tried . Seemed to be OK

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:34:31 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:11:29 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > >> > Anyone have a link to a good tutorial? >> >> http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers >> >> > Thanks. Had a look at it, but got a little confused after reading > a

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 12:34:31 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:11:29 + (UTC) > Camaleón wrote: > > > > Anyway, have you tried first with "nouveau"? > > That's the first thing I tried . Seemed to be OK, but a little on > the slow side compared with my on-board Intel

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:13:29 + Allan Wind wrote: > On 2011-02-19 11:59:38, Frank McCormick wrote: > > I am running Sid, and have just switched my video from Intel on-board > > to a NVIDIA based GE 5200. > > > > Install the linux-headers-$version package if you want to use the > NVIDIA inst

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:11:29 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:59:38 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > I am running Sid, and have just switched my video from Intel on-board to > > a NVIDIA based GE 5200. > > > > Anyone have a link to a good tutorial? > > http://wiki.debian

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Allan Wind
On 2011-02-19 11:59:38, Frank McCormick wrote: > I am running Sid, and have just switched my video from Intel on-board > to a NVIDIA based GE 5200. > > Now I am thoroughly confused about how to install NVIDIAs driver. > I DL'ed the latest run file from Nvidia.com, now when I attempt to > get it to

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:59:38 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > I am running Sid, and have just switched my video from Intel on-board to > a NVIDIA based GE 5200. > > Now I am thoroughly confused about how to install NVIDIAs driver. I > DL'ed the latest run file from Nvidia.com, now when I attempt t

Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running Sid, and have just switched my video from Intel on-board to a NVIDIA based GE 5200. Now I am thoroughly confused about how to install NVIDIAs driver. I DL'ed the latest run file from Nvidia.com, now when I attempt to get it to install the proper module(s), it tells me I need the kern