Re: new to debian but having installation problems
On Monday 01 January 2007 02:24, Mike Myers wrote:
> On 1/1/07, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
>
> 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!
the modconf command essentially does what you would be doing with modprobe,
but in a "GUI" way. Both modconf, m-a are explained in their man pages (not
very clear but good enough if you know what they do).
Documentation on nvidia can be found at
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html
It has been a long time since I have looked at these, so there might be other
new documents as well.
raju
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