Re: random quirkyness

On 2/6/07, Mike Myers <fluffymikey@gmail.com> wrote:

On 1/27/07, Douglas Allan Tutty < dtutty@porchlight.ca> 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).

Hi Mike,

I also run nvidia drivers, etch amd64, and the documentation isn't easy
to track down yet.  It comes down to having all the pacakges installed
that you need.  Once that's done it really does work.  Here's what I
have:

nvidia-kernel-2.6-amd64
        the metapackage that depends on the same kernel as
        linux-image-2.6-amd64 and on the matching nvidia-kernel modules

nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-3-amd64

nvidia-glx
        the xorg driver that depends on the nvidia kernel module

The one you're missing:
nvidia-xconfig
        it changes the xorg.conf file to use the nvidia driver and it
        ensures that the module is loaded and that everything works as
        it should.

Install that and everything should work.  By the way, the only two lines
in my /etc/modules file are:
        loop
        sbp2

Good luck

Doug.

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Thanks for all the responses everybody. I'm sorry for the late response, I haven't had much time to mess with it lately since I'm still in the process of moving and don't have internet at home yet.

Anyways, the problem isn't anything to do with installing the nvidia driver. It does install and run perfectly fine. The problem seems to be that the nvidia module doesn't load correctly after a reboot. 'lsmod' says it is loaded, but xorg says it cannot find it. Doing a apt-get --reinstall install nvidia-glx and then unloading and reloading the module will fix it, but only until the next reboot. And then I have to do it all over again.

Some of you were saying it might be related to udev, but I'm not really sure how to check that and see whether or not that's the issue. I'd prefer to just have the module installed and automatically loaded every time. I don't know why it would need to be detecting anything since I'm not changing hardware every reboot.

This is annoying since I have to have internet to install it again (i've cleaned the cache since I installed it last time like a month ago), and since I don't have internet I can't even use my desktop. Only the nvidia driver will work with my widescreen monitor, the other drivers are useless.

Thanks!
Mike