On 1/23/07, *Andrew Sackville-West* <andrew@farwestbilliards.com
<mailto:andrew@farwestbilliards.com>> wrote:
Mike, please don't cc: me as I subscribe to the list. thanks.
I apologize, I'm using gmail and it did that automatically for some reason.
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:27:40PM -0600, Mike Myers wrote:
> On 1/23/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com
<mailto:andrew@farwestbilliards.com>> wrote:
> >
> >On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:41:40PM -0600, Mike Myers wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm still trying to adjust from Gentoo's way of doing things
(do it
> >> manually) to debian's (apt-something) way. So far everything
has been
> >> great, but i'm having trouble finding docs on a couple of
issues I'm
> >> having. Both of them seem related to modules.
> >>
> >> First one is with the nvidia driver. It seems like everytime
my debian
> >box
> >> is rebooted, I have to re-apt-get nvidia-glx before I can use
> >xorg. Also,
> >> GDM doesn't seem to like my 1440x900 (widescreen) resolution
and I can't
> >> seem to do anything about it other than just not use GDM (not that
> >ditching
> >> it is a big deal).
> >
> >I can't speak to the resolution issue, but the xorg issue should
not
> >be happening. when you re-apt-get it, does it download it again and
> >appear to be actually reinstalling it? I wonder if your xorg.conf is
> >not getting updated correctly and you are correcting for it by
> >reinstalling each time. how about a copy of your xorg.conf for us to
> >look at as well as dpkg -l | grep nvidia
>
>
> I'm pretty sure it's not related to xorg, since it works fine
after running
> 'apt-get --reinstall install nvidia-glx', even with a
widescreen. It's only
> after a reboot that I must run that, as long as I want to use the
nvidia
> driver. If I use the 'nv' driver, then of course there's no
issue there,
> but that driver sucks. Just to oblige you, here's the contents:
(hopefully
> it looks sane enough to read)
>
so, what exactly happens when you *don't* apt-get install nvidia-glx?
what output do you get?
It tries to start and then fails, saying it can't find the nvidia
module, even though it's loaded. So I get a blank screen.