Re: Graphics cards with Free drivers
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 07:54:43AM +0200, Heikki Levanto wrote:
> Thanks, and sorry for being dense, but when you say 'the 196 driver' (or 1xx
> driver, as you say in your howto), what should I be getting. I seem to be
> unable to find any debian packages with that number in it.
>
> You have a nice table that explains how to substitute
> 'nvidia-kernel-legacy-71xx-source' for 'nvidia-kernel-source' for an old
> card, but I can't make anything similar to work no matter where I plug in the
> magical 169. Obviously I am doing something wrong here...
169 is the current one. No substitution required. Actually it is current
on unstable (and probably testing). Stable was released a long time ago
when 8776 was current. This is why Etch can't support new cards, the
driver is simply too old.
> The plain
> sudo m-a a-i -i -t -f nvidia-kernel-source
> gets to the compile errors I reported earlier.
Are you running Etch, Lenny or Sid? Are you running the Debian kernel
that came with it?
If you install a 2.6.24 kernel on Etch, then you won't be able to
compile the nvidia driver since the one in Etch doesn't work with
kernels much newer than 2.6.18 that Etch uses.
--
Len Sorensen
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