On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:49:13AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:49:29AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:24:04PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > After you installed nvidia-glx, did you run m-a to build the necessary kernel > > > modules like the instructions tell you? > > > > Huh? AFAIK in stable you have prebuild module packages. > > There are several inter-related nvidia packages and then a command to > set-up the nvidia driver (I forget which command, I ran it once a year > ago). You have to use a package search tool to find them all, install > them, then update man-db (run the cron-job manually), then apropos > nvidia. Last time I built a live CD for my diskless machine I had to: 1. install packages nvidia-glx and nvidia-xconfig (including dependencies of course) 2. run nvidia-xconfig (though I'm guessing a 'sed -i -e s/nv/nvidia/ xorg.conf' would have been enough) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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