A very very ultra easy way to apt-get to install nvidia glx with Debian ?
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Try this, the Debian Nvidia Wiki. It should tell you everything you need to do. There are several different options, but I don't think any of them are "one minute" ones.
http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
well, all of that. Looks lot of fun. I will try in one or two weekend, maybe, when I have half day or 1-2 days free for such complicated things.
similar to what I do.. but you left out killing X and restarting it, which some people new to Debian might not know...
Prepare the environment, you only need to do this the first time. the nvidia source, kernel source, etc.. will be downloaded automatically by module-assistant.
You can even automagically reconfigure your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, if you install nvidia-xconfig, and run it after the nvidia module and nvidia-glx install.
Just a wee bit more typing, but you get a working nvidia-powered xorg.conf right away!
btw, if a user is running Etch/stable, with a stock kernel, wouldn't the easiest, fastest way of getting nvidia be by installing the pre-packaged nvidia-module to match their kernel?
It worked amazing !! You're a genius !!
Thanks 1000000000 times. that was so easy, ... when you know it. I thought that kernel compiling was the only way.
Last edited by frenchn00b; 02-09-2008 at 12:14 AM.
Please be careful in what you write, so as not to ruin your excellent reputation as 'guru' within Debian.
I switched 6 weeks ago to pure 64-bit CPU and motherboard and a NVidia-PCIe-card thereupon.
Aptitude then did, what it was supposed to do and installed as much as available applications with the extension "..amd-64"
I followed then the WIKI-suggestion, which you repeated, to get nvidia-glx. But how often I tried and whatever I did, a nvidia-glx is nowhere available anymore in the testing-branch, even 5 minutes ago!
Two possibilities:
- your knowledge on this is too old
- stable has a module, that is not proliferated to testing anymore
- in 64-bit there's not (yet) a nvidia-glx available.
I fear, that the middle-one in combination with the last-one is most probably the case. See Firefox vs. Iceweasel as an example, why something is not acceptable anymore.
No harsh feelings please on what I've written above, just a hint, that 32-bit and 64-bit are seemingly not handled on the same basis in Debian.
...nvidia-glx is nowhere available anymore in the testing-branch...
The OP was using Etch. IMO, Lenny users are best advised to keep kernels and the associated modules up to date from the Unstable branch. Updating a few elements of your Lenny system from Sid is relatively safe, and not really unlike the normal flow of applications from Unstable to Testing.
The OP was using Etch. IMO, Lenny users are best advised to keep kernels and the associated modules up to date from the Unstable branch. Updating a few elements of your Lenny system from Sid is relatively safe, and not really unlike the normal flow of applications from Unstable to Testing.
readign this and I am already lost in technical words...
It worked and thnaks again !
Please be careful in what you write
Two possibilities:
- your knowledge on this is too old
- stable has a module, that is not proliferated to testing anymore
- in 64-bit there's not (yet) a nvidia-glx available.
No harsh feelings please on what I've written above, just a hint, that 32-bit and 64-bit are seemingly not handled on the same basis in Debian.
The directions I gave are valid for Debian Stable (Etch) which was the focus of this thread.
If you intend to run the testing or unstable branch, you should have a background in Debian that is technical enough to watch for changes, missing packages, alternate methods of doing things. Testing and Unstable are not for the un-initiated Debian user, or for someone who expects things to just work all the time. Packages appear and disappear in the testing and unstable branches, the package names change, parts go missing.
I take no offense to your comments, or opinion, but as pointed out the OP was using Debian Stable(etch), and as such the response was correct. had the OP been using Testing or Unstable the response may have been different.
With testing or unstable I typically install the nvidia driver with the package from nVidias website, rather than the Debian module-assistant method. while still using module-assistant to handle getting the build environment configured and up to date quickly.
A quick search of the testing repository shows that there is no nvidia-glx package currently available for any architecture
as for 64 bit, again that was not part of the OP's original question, nor would I attempt to authoritatively answer a specific question about an architecture I don't run.
If you have specific question about testing or unstable on the 64 bit architecture and a forum search doesn't find a solution then you should really start a separate thread for your question, rather than try to point out that valid information for other branches of Debian are incorrect.
Best of luck to you, and I don't worry about being referred to as a guru.. I'm just another guy trying to help out.
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