Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On Tue July 31 2007 18:17, David Fox wrote: > Looking at a debian ftp site that I use (#1 listing in my sources.list) I > see: > > > debian/pool/non-free/n > ls -l nvi* > drwxr-sr-x 2 1176 1176 4096 Jul 7 08:35 nvidia-graphics-drivers > drwxr-sr-x 2 1176 1176 4096 Dec 7 2006 nvidia-graphics-driver

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On 7/30/07, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Have you run apt-get update, and is your mirror up to date? I just > switched to > 2.6.21 from 2.6.22 an hour ago and had no problem with the same version of > the nvidia-kernel-source. Sure have. I'm using ftp.debian.org , and I just wen

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On Mon July 30 2007 22:00, David Fox wrote: > On 7/30/07, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You will need to have non-free (and probably contrib) along with main in > > your > > main debian archive lines in /etc/apt/sources.list. > > I already checked that - I do have non-free and contrib

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On 7/30/07, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You will need to have non-free (and probably contrib) along with main in > your > main debian archive lines in /etc/apt/sources.list. I already checked that - I do have non-free and contrib enabled. Reading into the thread a bit you may

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On Mon July 30 2007 19:27, David Fox wrote: > Alan Lanson wrote: > > module-assistant prepare or m-a prepare > module-assistant auto-install nvidia or m-a a-i nvidia > > > OK I tried that, it fails with the message that there's no > nvidia-kernel-source available. You will need to have non-free (a

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On 7/30/07, Sam Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if that is a debian version driver or not. I could not find > any info on the driver version 1.0-9755 that you have installed. If it is > a debian driver, do an "aptitude remove nvidia-glx" and make sure all it's > dependant package

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

David Fox wrote: On 7/28/07, *David Fox* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Hints? OK well, running the patched driver available was a good suggestion, but it fails miserably on my system. here's the attached error log Looks like you need to remove the old

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On 7/28/07, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hints? OK well, running the patched driver available was a good suggestion, but it fails miserably on my system. here's the attached error log nvidia-installer.log Description: Binary data

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

Alan Lanson wrote: module-assistant prepare or m-a prepare module-assistant auto-install nvidia or m-a a-i nvidia OK I tried that, it fails with the message that there's no nvidia-kernel-source available.

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 06:19:47AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Yes I'm running amd64. However, since I'm on slow dialup and the amd64 box is the only one with a CD burner and lots of drive space, it would be a major headache to have something happen that caused s

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 06:19:47AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > >Yes I'm running amd64. However, since I'm on slow dialup and the amd64 > >box is the only one with a CD burner and lots of drive space, it would > >be a major headache to have something happen that caused stuff to not > >work.

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 05:23:26PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: On Sat July 28 2007 15:45, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Difficulty with nvidia is the main reason that I'm sticking with Etch. Are you running an amd64 there? I have had no trouble on the amd64 with the nvid

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 05:23:26PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Sat July 28 2007 15:45, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > Difficulty with nvidia is the main reason that I'm sticking with Etch. > > Are you running an amd64 there? I have had no trouble on the amd64 with the > nvidia drivers. Ther

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On Sat July 28 2007 15:45, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Difficulty with nvidia is the main reason that I'm sticking with Etch. Are you running an amd64 there? I have had no trouble on the amd64 with the nvidia drivers. There a couple issues that I know of for the i386 but amd64 has been painles

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On Sat July 28 2007 16:35, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-07-28 15:10:31 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > > I might suggest that you install the 2.6.22 kernel from unstable. I > > had problems building the kernel module for k7 because of a GPL-only > > export that isn't an issue with 2.6.22 kernels. >

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 02:38:44PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > I'm browsing howto's at the moment and attempting to get the nvidia drivers > (the non-free ones) the "debian" way. > According to the testing status page ( > http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=nvidia-glx) it would seem > th

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On 2007-07-28 15:10:31 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > I might suggest that you install the 2.6.22 kernel from unstable. I > had problems building the kernel module for k7 because of a GPL-only > export that isn't an issue with 2.6.22 kernels. But for another reason, it doesn't work with 2.6.22: ht

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

David Fox wrote: I'm browsing howto's at the moment and attempting to get the nvidia drivers (the non-free ones) the "debian" way. There doesn't seem to be an avalable version of nvidia-kernel-source for my particular kernel (I was running 2.6.18-4-k7, but I just upgraded to 2.6.21-2-k7 a f

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On Sat July 28 2007 14:38, David Fox wrote: > I'm browsing howto's at the moment and attempting to get the nvidia drivers > (the non-free ones) the "debian" way. > > There doesn't seem to be an avalable version of nvidia-kernel-source for my > particular kernel (I was running 2.6.18-4-k7, but I jus

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On Sat July 28 2007 14:38, David Fox wrote: > I'm browsing howto's at the moment and attempting to get the nvidia drivers > (the non-free ones) the "debian" way. > > There doesn't seem to be an avalable version of nvidia-kernel-source for my > particular kernel (I was running 2.6.18-4-k7, but I jus

lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

I'm browsing howto's at the moment and attempting to get the nvidia drivers (the non-free ones) the "debian" way. There doesn't seem to be an avalable version of nvidia-kernel-source for my particular kernel (I was running 2.6.18-4-k7, but I just upgraded to 2.6.21-2-k7 a few moments ago. I'm usin