Re: Newbie Nvidia/Woody problem
"Andrea Vettorello" <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:32Zua-41c-5@gated-at.bofh.it...
> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:32:49 -0000, Brian Coiley <bcap@clara.co.uk> wrote:
> > "Andrea Vettorello" <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:32XVe-2Rx-3@gated-at.bofh.it...
>
> [...]
>
> >
> > Thank you Andrea for your reply. I have spent hours trawling archives,
and
> > found lots of threads about Nvidia drivers, but none that I could
> > understand! I really need a complete idiot's guide to doing this which,
as
> > you say, will need to come from someone who's done it.
> >
> > Regarding Sarge, isn't that unstable? What exactly does that mean? How
> > exactly would I switch to it? I deliberately chose to install Woody,
from a
> > set of CD's, because I felt that for a complete dunce like me it would
be
> > far easier than downloading and installing bleeding-edge stuff that I
don't
> > understand.
> >
>
> Actually Sarge is an alias of the "testing" Debian branch, in the next
> few weeks, when all the release bug will be fixed, will be declared
> "stable". Unstable, or Sid, is another branch of Debian, in few words,
> it's a fast moving target, packages changes often, and sometimes
> things broken up...
>
>
> The problem with Woody is that was released more than 2 years ago, so
> you can have some trouble installing with newer HW. Anyway, if you
> want to give Sarge a try, modify your /etc/apt/sources.list commenting
> or deleting the stable/woody lines and adding something like
>
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free
>
> and
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main
>
> for security updates.
>
> I've put the UK Debian mirror, should works without problems, if not
> you can choose the mirror you prefer.
>
> After that, you update the apt packages list with "apt-get update" and
> start the installing with "apt-get dist-upgrade". This should proceed
> without problems, changing all the Woody packages with the
> corresponding Sarge versions. If apt spit out some error messages,
> usually an "apt-get -f install" should resolve broken dependencies. If
> you still have problems, ask here... =)
>
> After that, you can install a 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernel, in the "non free"
> repository (for the details on "non free" look on the Debian pages)
> there's a nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-1-386 kernel (or 686,k5,k6,k7, choose
> what suits you better), so this could be the easier path to install
> the binary nvidia drivers.
>
> Don't know if you'll find compiled binary drivers or need to compile
> them from sources, you should find enough information in the
> nvidia-kernel documentation and, in case of compiling from sources,
> you should find some scripts to automate the process.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Andrea
>
OK, thanks a lot Andrea, I'm going to try the upgrade - watch this space!
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