On January 20, 2008 05:05:29 pm Karl Schmidt wrote:
> Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> > Hi !
> >
> > To get the newest NVidia-packages installed and built, you can follow
> > these steps:
> >
> > 1. delete all /usr/src/modules/nv*
> > 2. delete /usr/src/nvidia-source*.tgz
> > 3. delete all formerly built packages (i.e. nvidia-kernel-bla***.deb)
> > 4. deinstall nvidia-source and reinstall the new nvidia-source
> > 5. start module-assistant and choose nvidia-kernel and let it build and
> > install
> > 6. apt-get update, apt-get upgrade let you now install the newest package
> > nvidia-glx
> > 7. update all xserver-xorg* packages.
> > 8. Have fun !
> >
> > The latest version (167.07) is running stable !
> >
> >
> > Good luck !
> >
> > Hans-J. Ullrich
>
> That didn't work for me - I got every thing compiled and installed -
> verified that the nvidia driver was loaded, but xorg could not see it and
> errors out.
>
> I think it is a version thing - or something to do with AMD64.
>
> If someone has this working under lenny and could list the following:
>
> * kernel version running
> * versions of all the nvidia packages
> * version of xorg
>
> This way I'm comparing apples to apples.
>
Here are mine listed below as you can see from the version naming of the
packages I needed to re-compile so that they would install using Xorg 7.2, if
you want I can send you the packages so you can build your own kernel module
to install. Or you can simply re-build the nvidia packages yourself having
changed the debian/control file to xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.3) in the
nvidia-glx section.
HappyTux:/# COLUMNS=125 dpkg -l | grep nvidia
ii nvidia-glx 169.07-2.1 NVIDIA binary Xorg
driver
ii nvidia-glx-dev 169.07-2.1 NVIDIA binary Xorg
driver development files
ii nvidia-kernel-2.6.23 169.07-2.1+2.6.23-10.00.C NVIDIA binary kernel
module for Linux 2.6.23
ii nvidia-kernel-common 20051028+1-0.1 NVIDIA binary kernel
module common files
ii nvidia-kernel-source 169.07-2.1 NVIDIA binary kernel
module source
ii nvidia-settings 1.0+20070502-1 Tool of configuring
the NVIDIA graphics driver
HappyTux:/# uname -r
2.6.23
HappyTux:/# lsmod |grep nvidia
nvidia 8894372 34
i2c_core 27072 6
nvidia,eeprom,tuner,cx88xx,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom
HappyTux:/# X -version
X Window System Version 1.3.0
Release Date: 19 April 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
Build Operating System: Linux Debian (xorg-server 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12)
Current Operating System: Linux HappyTux 2.6.23 #1 SMP Mon Dec 31 01:38:11 AST
2007 x86_64
Build Date: 09 August 2007
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Stephen
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