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Re: installing nvidia driver for pci express 6600GT?



On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:51:18AM +0200, Alexander Fieroch wrote:
> how do I get my nvidia PCI Express 6600GT card to work?
> The nv driver in xfree86 does not support this card and so I tried
> the proprietary one without succes.
> Then I have compiled and installed xorg but the nv driver does not work
> too. With the nv driver I only get a black screen and the keys
> CTRL+ALT+F[n] are locked so that I can't do anything.
> 
> The proprietary driver does kompile but the module can't be loaded:

apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source, and go read the instructions in
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-source (module-assistant may or may not be
helpful).

Len Sorensen



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