Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-14 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2010-04-14 16:51, Lennart Sorensen wrote: It is based on the fact that the 'official installer' overwrites files belonging to debian packages. When those packages someday get upgraded, they overwrite what the nvidia driver installed, and then things break. I have helped enough people fix that

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:03:06AM +0200, Andreas Weber wrote: > On 2010-04-13 23:53, Charles Kroeger wrote: > > anyone having problems with their Nvidia card and drivers should first > > consult Lennart Sorensen's HOWTO: > > > > http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.html >

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-14 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2010-04-13 23:53, Charles Kroeger wrote: > anyone having problems with their Nvidia card and drivers should first > consult Lennart Sorensen's HOWTO: > > http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.html I did it, thanks to the author. Lean and clean written. However, I disagr

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-13 Thread steef
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: steef wrote: hi folk, got myself a asusrock standard atx mobo with a gforce 9400 (nvidia) in a pci-express slot. i have to use the 195 4driver from *their* site. the standard lenny driver for nvidia does not support this hardware. (or am i

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-13 Thread Charles Kroeger
anyone having problems with their Nvidia card and drivers should first consult Lennart Sorensen's HOWTO: http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.html also it is essential to have the xorg's 'nv' "driver" handy if you get kicked back to the console on startx after an Nvidia u

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: steef wrote: hi folk, got myself a asusrock standard atx mobo with a gforce 9400 (nvidia) in a pci-express slot. i have to use the 195 4driver from *their* site. the standard lenny driver for nvidia does not support this hardware. (or am i wrong??) well: everything

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:53:20 +0200, steef wrote: > Camaleón wrote: (...) >> So I would >> test with the nvidia Debian drivers. If they do not work, you can >> always come back and activate the Intel one. >> >> > that is what i did when the nvidia drivers from *their site* worked out > disastro

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-10 Thread steef
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:50:05 +0200, steef wrote: Camaleón wrote: here it comes: st...@debianlennynw:~$ lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:50:05 +0200, steef wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> Just another thing to try. >> >> Issue "lspci | grep VGA" and put here the output. (...) > here it comes: > > st...@debianlennynw:~$ lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible > controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset In

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-10 Thread steef
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:48:28 +0200, steef wrote: Camaleón wrote: please! some further suggestions?? Try to load "nv" driver and see what happens. and that is what i did. kaffeine is still giving trouble with mpeg4-files&&. so i

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:48:28 +0200, steef wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >>> please! some further suggestions?? >>> >> Try to load "nv" driver and see what happens. >> >> >> > and that is what i did. kaffeine is still giving trouble > with mpeg4-files &&. so i loaded again the intel-d

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-10 Thread steef
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:25:32 +0200, steef wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) <.> please! some further suggestions?? Try to load "nv" driver and see what happens. Greetings, and that is what i did. kaffeine is still giving trouble

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-10 Thread steef
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:25:32 +0200, steef wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) I would first try with "nv" driver (no 3D accel) to discard the freeze coming from another source. If using "nv" driver and you get no more freezes, then you can safely blame the nvidia drive

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:25:32 +0200, steef wrote: > Camaleón wrote: (...) >> I would first try with "nv" driver (no 3D accel) to discard the freeze >> coming from another source. If using "nv" driver and you get no more >> freezes, then you can safely blame the nvidia driver and try by >> searchi

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,10.Apr.10, 12:25:32, steef wrote: > thanks for your answers. i tried to install xserver-xorg-video-nv > on my (simple) machine asusrock g41m-s with the bios adapted. i > could of course install the nv-driver but this driver did not appesr > in /etc/X11. maybe a hardware problem: a bad card

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-10 Thread steef
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:02:06 +0200, steef wrote: got myself a asusrock standard atx mobo with a gforce 9400 (nvidia) in a pci-express slot. i have to use the 195 4driver from *their* site. the standard lenny driver for nvidia does not support this hardware. (or am i wrong

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
steef wrote: hi folk, got myself a asusrock standard atx mobo with a gforce 9400 (nvidia) in a pci-express slot. i have to use the 195 4driver from *their* site. the standard lenny driver for nvidia does not support this hardware. (or am i wrong??) well: everything works fine except for

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-09 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:02:06 +0200, steef wrote: > got myself a asusrock standard atx mobo with a gforce 9400 (nvidia) in a > pci-express slot. i have to use the 195 4driver from *their* site. the > standard lenny driver for nvidia does not support this hardware. (or am > i wrong??)

gforce 9400

2010-04-09 Thread steef
Original Message Subject:gforce 9400 Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:02:06 +0200 From: steef Reply-To: debian.li...@home.nl To: debian hi folk, got myself a asusrock standard atx mobo with a gforce 9400 (nvidia) in a pci-express slot. i have to use the

gforce 9400

2010-04-09 Thread steef
hi folk, got myself a asusrock standard atx mobo with a gforce 9400 (nvidia) in a pci-express slot. i have to use the 195 4driver from *their* site. the standard lenny driver for nvidia does not support this hardware. (or am i wrong??) well: everything works fine except for ane thing