Re: X on laptop going nuts
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sime wrote:
> Paul Puschmann wrote:
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>> Try to use the nv drivers for your XFree86 and not the nvidia driver.
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> Doing so now.
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>> If the problem is gone, try to reinstall your nvidia-binary-drivers.
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> I do not believe this to be the problem directly, as I always upgrade my
> driver with each nvidia release and this has been happening since more
> than a few releases ago.
>
>> See this document:
>> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html
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>> I chose the way via module-assistant and everything works great.
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> Haven't tried this method yet, will consider if I find the nvidia
> drivers to be the problem.
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> -sime
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>
There is an issue with nvidia and udev, that is used by sarge (on most
machines).
Have a look in google with those keywords: debian nvidia udev
to sum it up: place the entry 'nvidia' (without quotes) in your /etc/modules
And this should work.
Paul
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