Re: NVIDIA and Etch : WAS Re: Problems with GRUB and SATA
On 27 Mar 2007, Joe Hart wrote:
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> Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > On 27 Mar 2007, Ian Broadbent wrote:
> >>>> Question please... should the driver be 'nvidia' or 'nv', (if
> >> 'nvidia'
> >>>> - any suggestions as to what I am missing?) ... if it's should be
> >>>> 'nv' in any event .. then can someone help me find the settings for
> >>>> this to get the colours to be accurately displayed?
> > [snip]
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> > Have you tried the fglrx packages (fglrx-driver and fglrx-kernel-src)? I
> > installed these recently on a Thinkpad X61M and got 3d acceleration. I
> > can't remember the exact steps I used (and the machine is not here at
> > present to check) but it's explained in the docs and there is stuff on
> > Google about doing it.
> >
> > Anthony
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> flgrx is for ati cards. OP has nvidia. Ian, don't do that.
>
Sorry - yes, of course. Brain not working properly this morning.
Anthony
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