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Hi kmoffat, running an nvidia card without the nvidia driver (3d acceleration) it's not a good option for playing tuxracer...
Given the fact that you have used the kernel sources from kernel.org you can use the classic procedure of compiling the nvidia driver from a terminal in run level 3 (init 3), get the NVIDIA linux driver and type sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7676-pkg1.run (an example) as root and finally reconfigure the xserver with the command dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg.
I don't know if you have tried this and what were the results, please give us more info.
If you're going to use a brand new kernel (like 2.6.14) then you should use the latest nvidia-packages as well. 1-0.7676 is availabe in the experiment distro, you could add the experimental distro as a deb-src repo and then just do a 'apt-get source nvidia-glx ; cd nvidia-graphics-drivers_1.0.7676 ; dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc ; dpkg -i ../nvidia*.deb' to get it tailored against your machine. apt-build can do that same as well.
What about people who'd like to upgrade to the latest kernel but cannot move to the 7676 version of the Nvidia drivers simply because their card is not supported (like riva TNT2) Has anyone figured out a way around this issue?
Re: I have an Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 256 MB agp8x video card...
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Originally posted by JeanBrownHarrel I have an Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 256 MB agp8x video card with Debian "Etch" amd64 with DMA enabled and I use packages from both "testing" and "unstable" and I am not using the Nvidia drivers. I am using the X driver "nv" as this works fine for my purposes. I have not tried to use the Nvidia driver; maybe soon? Anyway I had also been having problems with my Debian Sarge & Etch amd64 installations [both of them] where the Gnome or Xserver steadily ate up more and more of my RAM [memory leak?] until it had consumed all of it and could not figure out what it was. I reinstalled Debian "Etch" amd64 but was very careful of what I installed that would run in memory as memory-resident and so far I have not had any problems with my RAM being steadily consumed [memory leak?] more & more by either Xserver [both xfree86 & xorg did this] and/or Gnome & KDE also I think....anyway I have an awesome system and it works great. I also pay attention to the bug reports on the updates when Synaptic goes to install them I don't install anything that has a memory leak big as Texas. If I have any problems with any program I don't install it and that helps also. I tried Ubuntu Breezy 5.10-amd64 and it won't boot; it fails partway through the boot. I reported it as a bug and it is being worked on but is not fixed yet. I cannot stomach Fedora Core 4-any version-as they took out apt and synaptic and I can't stand yumex as it has a memory leak as big as Texas and is too slow and a pain in the butt. So I tried Debian and am trying to work out the bugs. If I don't use Debian my only alternatives are Red Hat Linux 9, 8, or 7.3 or Fedora Core 2 or even 1. Hope my comments helped.
Sincerely,
Jean Brown Harrell
You not just confused about how unix memory management works are you? The system will use more RAM the longer you use it to cache up programs that you have used, but if you run something intense that needs the ram, the cached items will be dropped out of memory. If you are aware of this and know that the x-server really is using up hella ram, then I don't know whats up. Just thought I would clear up the memory management if you weren't aware of it!
Originally posted by valerie_tux What about people who'd like to upgrade to the latest kernel but cannot move to the 7676 version of the Nvidia drivers simply because their card is not supported (like riva TNT2) Has anyone figured out a way around this issue?
The problem is with udev.
Add this to /etc/udev/links.conf:
M nvidia0 c 195 0
M nvidia1 c 195 1
M nvidia2 c 195 2
M nvidiactl c 195 255
Then reboot. It should work afterwards. Good luck.
I had a similar compile error with svgalib in the kernel helper module compile. I have to Linux machines, with the one I'm working on being a fresh install. I knew I didn't have a problem with the first machine, but I also have a custom, compiled kernel on that one.
The problem ended up being a missing symbolic link in the kernel build directory. On my good machine, there is a symbolic link from asm -> asm-i386. With the symbolic link, it will find the asm/linkage.h file. Unfortunately, I have a new compile problem further down my process, so I have to solve that one too - but I hope the answer to your problem is here.
Originally posted by lpd If you're going to use a brand new kernel (like 2.6.14) then you should use the latest nvidia-packages as well. 1-0.7676 is availabe in the experiment distro, you could add the experimental distro as a deb-src repo and then just do a 'apt-get source nvidia-glx ; cd nvidia-graphics-drivers_1.0.7676 ; dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc ; dpkg -i ../nvidia*.deb' to get it tailored against your machine. apt-build can do that same as well.
I am running debian etch with a nvidia geforce 6200 AGP card and had some really wierd problems with the nvidia drivers from testing. They compiled alright and loaded (since the nvidia logo showed up on my screen) but the colors were all messed up, like dark purple so you couldnt read any text, and the console was similarly messed up but only after starting X. So I googled and read here that support for the 6200 AGP card was only added in 1.0-7664. So I tried installing nvidia-kernel-source and nvidia-glx from experimental, which seemed to work out okay as in no dependancy issues and the kernel module built. Unfortunately now the X server is not loading the nvidia module even though I tell it to use it in my xorg.conf! Has anyone else had the same problem?
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