Re: Graphic Card

[Danesh Daroui <Danesh.D@bredband.net>]

Well, I will not use this machine for game or something like that. I had selected "nv" and as I said it worked but the resolution sucked. Everything was too big and I could not change the resolution. I didn't have such problem when I was using Fedora and it just choose the driver automatically. Maybe it happens because I am using xfree86. Is it possible to simply use "xorg" instead? Fedora used it too, so I think it is more suitable for me.


Alan Ianson wrote:

On Thu January 4 2007 19:51, Danesh Daroui wrote:
  

Now another question. I am using NVIDIA and last time I selected "NV" it
didn't work properly. Is there any way to force to autodetecttion mode?
Or, what option should I choose if I have NVIDIA graphic card?
    

The nv driver should work with your nvidia card for 2D graphics. If you want 
to do any gaming or anything that requires 3D graphics you'll need to install 
the nvidia kernel module. Those modules are available in etch and sid in the 
non-free and contrib repo's, look for nvidia*

If your running sarge you need to build those modules yourself, it's easy to 
do if you have module-assistant installed. First run "m-a prepare" and m-a 
will prepare your box to build those modules and then "m-a a-i nvidia" to 
build those modules, create an nvidia*.deb and install it. Once that is done 
run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 (or xorg) and choose the nvidia driver.

  

Alan Ianson wrote:
    

On Thu January 4 2007 19:34, Danesh Daroui wrote:
      

Hi all,

I think I have selected the graphic card's vendor of my system
incorrectly during Debian installation. How can I change it?
        

On sarge "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86", and on etch and
unstable "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg".