Re: "Nvidia" module for 3ddesktop

[Jonathan Opperman <jonathan@infosat.net>]

On Thursday 20 January 2005 02:42, Brian R Drell wrote:
> Are you using the installer from nVidia's website? If so, you need to
> use the version from the apt repository.  It's in the non-free testing
> repository.
>
> I just did "apt-get install nvidia-*".  I use a custom kernel, so I went
> to my kernel source directory and did a "make-kpkg modules_image", then
> installed the .deb file that it made in the /usr/src directory.  This
> should install the correct modules
> to /lib/modules/<your-kernel-version>.
>
> Now, I had a problem where modprobe wouldn't find the nvidia module.
> So, make sure you're running the correct kernel, and do a
> "dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-glx" and this should fix the problem.
>
> I used this howto to solve my issues:
> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Brian
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Hi Brian,

Thank you for this, i did try to use the installer from Nvidia's website...it 
didn't work, tried you suggestion/s and i the i am now happy :), the module 
is not working beautifully. 

Once again, thanks  for your help.

Ciao
Jono