Re: Nvidia driver

[Christian Schoenebeck <christian.schoenebeck@epost.de>]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:24:44 +0100
"Willem-Jan Meijer" <meyer3@chello.nl> wrote:

> Hello again,
> 
> Now i've built the nvidia package and I installed it, dselect says
> it's installed correctly, But now I don't know how get the driver
> installed so I can use the driver with X

You're speaking about the kernel driver, right? You also need to install
the nvidia-glx package and then modify your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 like
the following description from the nvidia-glx readme file:

	If you already have an XF86Config file working with a different driver
	(such as the 'nv' or 'vesa' driver), then all you need to do is find
	the relevant Device section and replace the line:

 	       Driver "nv"
	    (or Driver "vesa")

	with

 	       Driver "nvidia"

	In the Module section, make sure you have:

 	       Load   "glx"

	You should also remove the following lines:

 	       Load  "dri"
  	      Load  "GLcore"

Note: if you have version 4.x of the X server (you can check this with 
'dpkg --status xserver-common'), which is most probably the case, then
you have to edit XF86Config-4 instead of XF86Config.

Regards,
Christian