Re: nvidia way versus debian way of installing nvidia 3D graphics drivers in Lenny..
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:00:25PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> I have installed Debian Lenny on my HP G6062 laptop. Xserver works reasonably using the vesa driver. I couldn't get it to work with the nv driver.
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> It seems to see the nvidia network controller as well.
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> There is an nvidia 7000M graphics chip in the laptop. I assume that it could do some 3D graphics processing.
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> But if I would want to use this capability I would need to install the proprietary nvidia drivers manually.
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> I Googled this and found quite a few web pages on this.
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> It seems that Nvidia have their own installer and guide on their own web site for Linux users but Debian also has its own Debian Way of installing the nvidia drivers.
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> There also seems to be other individuals with web pages giving advice on this subject.
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> Left to my own devices I would likely choose this site to get instructions on how to proceed here:
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> http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
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> But this seems to be a fast moving subject and maybe this site is out of date now.
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> I would appreciate comments on which web sites provide the most up to date and appropriate way of doing it.
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> I will use those sites and ignore the other ones and install the drivers.
I updated mine last week. :)
http://www.tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.html
It works for me, and I often get emails from people saying it works for
them. Sometimes I get emails with questions about things not working,
which I then figure out and update the howto to deal with.
--
Len Sorensen
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