Re: new to debian but having installation problems

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>]

On Sunday 31 December 2006 12:24, Mike Myers wrote:
>
> Thanks for the tips!  I downloaded the etch cd and it detected my card and
> installed fine.  The only issue now is getting the nvidia driver installed.
> The 'nv' driver doesn't work with my widescreen display at all.  It looks
> like to do this, I need to have a custom kernel so the driver from nvidia
> can build a module for it.  Might there be an easier way to do this?

m-a update
m-a prepare
m-a a-i nvidia

modconf
  -> select and load the nvidia module

m-a stands for the module-assistant. The above procedure requires for you to 
have contrib non-free (along with main) added to your apt-get mirrors in 
the /etc/apt/sources.list

You will need to do this every time you update your kernel.

hth
raju

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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
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