Re: new to debian but having installation problems

On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 11:24:03AM -0600, Mike Myers wrote:


Thanks for the tips! I downloaded the etch cd and it detected my card and
installed fine. The only issue now is getting the nvidia driver installed.
The 'nv' driver doesn't work with my widescreen display at all. It looks
like to do this, I need to have a custom kernel so the driver from nvidia
can build a module for it. Might there be an easier way to do this?

yup. install the nvidia-kernel package appropriate for your
system. you will have to add the 'non-free' repository to your
sources.list.

edit /etc/apt/sources.list
you will find a line like

deb http://somemirror.here.org/debian/ etch main

add to the end of that line "contrib non-free" without the quotes

deb http://somemirror.here.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free

use your favorite package manager to update the cache

apt-get update
aptitude update
etc.

apt-cache search nvidia-kernel and check out the various
packages. probably you want nvidia-kernel-2.6-<arch> or
nvidia-kernel-legacy-2.6-<arch>

enjoy

A

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