Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > >> It appears you are using the stock kernel. There is a precompiled nvidia > >> driver available for this kernel. It is in the non-free section. You > >> might want to try that. > > > > what driver would that be?? > > apt-get install nvidia-kerne

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > >>> so as a NORMAL user you cd to the folder, then MAGIC, you are root to > >>> run a command.. > > Please forgive my naivety in not recognizing the sarcasm in that. sorry, would I meant to say was, there must be a step or two left out. Obviousl

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Patrick Wiseman wrote: so as a NORMAL user you cd to the folder, then MAGIC, you are root to run a command.. Please forgive my naivety in not recognizing the sarcasm in that. I have never seen such magic. Changing to a directory giving you root access? Something is very odd. Inspect your PA

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Cartwright wrote: > > On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > so as a NORMAL user you cd to the folder, then MAGIC, you are root to > run a > > command.. > > > > I have never seen such magic. Changin

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Linux paulandcilla 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux It appears you are using the stock kernel. There is a precompiled nvidia driver available for this kernel. It is in the non-free section. Y

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > Linux paulandcilla 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686 > > GNU/Linux > > It appears you are using the stock kernel. There is a precompiled nvidia > driver available for this kernel. It is in the non-free section. You > might wa

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat February 23 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: FWIW, I find the nvidia driver to be worth the little effort required. http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers I was reading that page, following along, but I got to this part and I don't understand how to FIX it:

The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat February 23 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > FWIW, I find the nvidia driver to be worth the little effort required. > > http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers I was reading that page, following along, but I got to this part and I don't understand how to FIX it: and then choose the op