Re: new to debian but having installation problems

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 02:10:40PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
On Monday 01 January 2007 02:24, Mike Myers wrote:
On 1/1/07, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

modconf
-> select and load the nvidia module

the modconf command essentially does what you would be doing with modprobe,
but in a "GUI" way. Both modconf, m-a are explained in their man pages (not
very clear but good enough if you know what they do).

Documentation on nvidia can be found at
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html


I'm using amd64 Etch.

I'm using nVIDIA EN7300GT silent and I'm using the nvidia driver since I
want to use hardware playback not software. If I remember right, here's
how I did it (it wasn't painful at all in fact it was so simple it
didn't stick in my head too well):

Get x working with the nv driver.

Manually copy xorg.conf to xorg.conf.nv (later steps do
something similar but I'm paranoid)

install: (remember to have contrib and non-free in
/etc/apt/sources.list)
nvidia-glx

(in my case) nvidia-kernel-2.6-amd64 (the generic nvidia
kernel package that matches the generic kernel package,
both depend on the most recent kernel, great for
updates).

nvidia-settings

nvidia-xconfig

read all the man pages and docs in /usr/share/doc/nvidia*

run nvidia-xconfig
it alters your xorg.conf file and gets everything ready
to run with the new module. Module loading happens
automatically.

I never needed to use modconf or module-assistant or the source.

Good luck.

Doug.


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