Re: How to install nvidia driver

[Gilles <gilles@harfang.homelinux.org>]

Hi.

> 
> I have an not so powerfull/new nvidia card, may card is FX5200. 
> [...]
> 
> Some other notes: the 7174 does not compile om 2.6.14, as one can see in the 
> discussion about that 
> (http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/11/msg00233.html), and until today 
> I have not saw the new package version, 7676, on Debian's repositories around 
> the world.

This is the thread about my attempts (and I have the same card as yours).

You can add this line:

#---cut---
deb http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia unstable/amd64/
#---cut--

in your "/etc/apt/sources.list" file and you'll get the possibility
to download the tarball of the 7676 version, from which you can then
make the installable module (as explained in the above thread).


Nevertheless, I still have that problem about having to plug a TV
cable (although I'm not using the TV-out) because otherwise, the
digital output does not send the video signal to the monitor upon
X server startup.

If you find a solution, I'd be happy to hear about it.


Best regards,
Gilles