Re: new to debian but having installation problems

From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:31:27 -0500

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?

You can use a stock kernel just fine:

http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/

Regards,

-Roberto

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