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From: Jonas Stein on 2 Jun 2010 09:40 There are many ways to get a nvidia vga device running in debian. But wich one is the debian way? I tried different ways, bu i get different errormessages and graphicerrors. I want to try an "official" way to install a NV FX 5200 befeore i create bugreports. Where can i find the latest howto about the nv installation with 3d support? (...and dualhead viewport) Kind regards, -- Jonas Stein <news(a)jonasstein.de> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/t83id7-q83.ln1(a)news.jonasstein.de
From: Camaleón on 2 Jun 2010 10:00 On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:34:53 +0200, Jonas Stein wrote: > There are many ways to get a nvidia vga device running in debian. But > wich one is the debian way? > I tried different ways, bu i get different errormessages and > graphicerrors. I want to try an "official" way to install a NV FX 5200 > befeore i create bugreports. > > Where can i find the latest howto about the nv installation with 3d > support? (...and dualhead viewport) I installed nvidia from Debian "non-free" repo by following these instructions: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers Just note that Debian packages for nvidia are a bit "outdated" so if you are using a brand-new card, you may experience some problems when using old drivers. For setting up "twinview" (dual displays) I had to Google a bit to find the right values to put in "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" file. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.06.02.13.47.11(a)gmail.com
From: Andrei Popescu on 2 Jun 2010 15:40 On Mi, 02 iun 10, 15:34:53, Jonas Stein wrote: > There are many ways to get a nvidia vga device running in debian. > But wich one is the debian way? > I tried different ways, bu i get different errormessages and graphicerrors. > I want to try an "official" way to install a NV FX 5200 befeore i create bugreports. > > Where can i find the latest howto about the nv installation with 3d support? > (...and dualhead viewport) In my experience dual-head doesn't work so good with the 'nv' driver. Assuming you run lenny (it is different for squeeze as FX 5200 is not supported by newer drivers) and you kernel flavour is -686 - add 'non-free' to sources.list - update and install the packages nvidia-glx, nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-2-686 nvidia-settings - edit your xorg.conf to contain Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" Driver "nvidia" EndSection - restart X (you should see the nVidia logo) - use nvidia-settings to setup your screens Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
From: Jimmy Johnson on 3 Jun 2010 00:00 Jonas Stein wrote: > There are many ways to get a nvidia vga device running in debian. > But wich one is the debian way? > I tried different ways, bu i get different errormessages and graphicerrors. > I want to try an "official" way to install a NV FX 5200 befeore i create bugreports. > > Where can i find the latest howto about the nv installation with 3d support? > (...and dualhead viewport) > > Kind regards, If you want an easy way and you can get to the command line F1, then install SMXI and run it. http://smxi.org/docs/smxi-manual.htm#install First login as root and then "apt-get update && apt-get install unzip" then "cd /usr/local/bin && wget -Nc smxi.org/smxi.zip && unzip smxi.zip && smxi" It will install the nvidia video driver for you and do other neat things too, it's not the Debian way, it's an easy way and always works for me. -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS 8.5-1 EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C0726AA.9050309(a)gmail.com
From: Mathieu Malaterre on 3 Jun 2010 03:50 On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Camaleón <noelamac(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:34:53 +0200, Jonas Stein wrote: > >> There are many ways to get a nvidia vga device running in debian. But >> wich one is the debian way? >> I tried different ways, bu i get different errormessages and >> graphicerrors. I want to try an "official" way to install a NV FX 5200 >> befeore i create bugreports. >> >> Where can i find the latest howto about the nv installation with 3d >> support? (...and dualhead viewport) > > I installed nvidia from Debian "non-free" repo by following these > instructions: > > http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers I think those instructions are deprecated. If you are using current non-free you have to do something like: apt-get install nvidia-kernel-dkms It should automatically build the latest nvidia driver for your running kernel. HTH -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTik0udi5NpIvE0qBVvH6BQ2r_SmkdYg63mx4B9TV(a)mail.gmail.com
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