Re: new to debian but having installation problems

On 1/1/07, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sunday 31 December 2006 12:24, 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?

m-a update
m-a prepare
m-a a-i nvidia

modconf
-> select and load the nvidia module

m-a stands for the module-assistant. The above procedure requires for you
to
have contrib non-free (along with main) added to your apt-get mirrors in
the /etc/apt/sources.list

You will need to do this every time you update your kernel.

hth
raju

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That's good to know! What is all that doing behind the scenes? I'm used to
loading the module manually and adding a line in
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel- 2.6 so it is loaded while booting up. So I
would just do like,

modprobe nvidia; echo "nvidia" >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6;

and be done. If you can point me to where I can RTFM that'd be awsome,
heh. Thanks!

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