Re: new to debian but having installation problems
On 1/1/07, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> wrote:
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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That's good to know! What is all that doing behind the scenes? I'm
used to loading the module manually and adding a line in
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-
2.6 so it is loaded while booting up. So I would just do like,
modprobe nvidia; echo "nvidia" >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6;
and be done. If you can point me to where I can RTFM that'd be awsome, heh. Thanks!
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