Re: Nvidia, apt-get & Synaptic

Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Tue,28.Oct.08, 14:17:51, MLewis wrote:

Thanks for the link Jack. Very good instructions, but I'm missing
something. When I do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg I am not asked about
any video options at all. Something I must have missed along the way.

You're not missing anything. Xorg in Lenny now does a lot of automatic
configuration and will usually detect the correct driver, but in this particular case it doesn't. Just make sure you have the nvidia-glx package (or nvidia-glx-legacy, depending on your chip--see the package descriptions) installed and you will need to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add a line

Driver "nvidia"


I tried this. Same thing, only 640x480 resolution :-(

AFAIK, I have no nv.ko nor nvidia.ko files present on the system.


in the "Device" section. It might work without it (haven't tested
myself) if you don't have the xserver-xorg-video-nv package, though I
prefer to keep it installed, just in case nvidia is making trouble.

Such precautions are usually not necessary on stable (which lenny is very close to).

Regards,
Andrei

Thanks,
Mike
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