Help needed installing non-free nVidia drivers (the 'Debian way')
Hi,
I'm trying to install non-free nVidia drivers (the 'Debian way') by these instructions: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers, and I'm having trouble choosing the right drivers. I'm hoping someone can give me a push to the new direction -- I'm not sure what I should be looking at to determine what drivers I need. My desktop is an HP Pavilion Slimline s3400t. I'll do any pastes needed at request as soon as I can. Thanks. |
Which branch of Debian are you using?.
Which graphics card are you using?. If you post these details we should be able to advise which driver you need. |
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furey@debian:~$ uname -a Linux debian 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 04:57:38 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux Quote:
My desktop is an HP Pavilion Slimline s3400t -- perhaps some useful details are here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...708937&lang=en Thanks. -wheelie. |
Post the output of lspci,you should see something like:
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02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8800 GTS] (rev a2) |
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Looking at that output you want the current driver available in Lenny:
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/nvidia-glx http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree8...ppendix-a.html So just follow the guide,make sure you have contrib and non-free enabled in your apt sources. And install with: Code:
aptitude install module-assistant nvidia-kernel-common Code:
m-a auto-install nvidia-kernel${VERSION}-source |
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m-a auto-install nvidia-kernel${VERSION}-source |
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m-a auto-install nvidia-kernel${VERSION}-source |
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I then entered this: Code:
# apt-get install nvidia-glx${VERSION} Code:
nvidia-glx is already the newest version. Going on, somewhat strangely, I notice that /etc/X11/xorg.conf is blank (it tells me to cp -p /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak). I put in just this line in xorg.conf: Code:
Driver "nvidia" |
Ok,post the output of cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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furey@debian:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf |
I believe that you have to generate the xorg.conf manually.
I do it as follows: Code:
ctrl-alt-f1 Login as root. Code:
# /etc/init.d/gdm stop (to stop gdm.) Code:
ctrl-alt-f1 again. |
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Section "ServerLayout" Also, my resolution seems to be really messed up... before it was okay (1200x860, or something like that) - now it's something like 640x480 or something like that |
You need to remove or comment out the following line:
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Load "dri" |
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