David Fox wrote:
I'm browsing howto's at the moment and attempting to get
the nvidia drivers (the non-free ones) the "debian" way.
There doesn't seem to be an avalable version of nvidia-kernel-source
for my particular kernel (I was running 2.6.18-4-k7, but I just
upgraded to 2.6.21-2-k7
a few moments ago. I'm using http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/, and
http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
as reference documents.
There is also no nvidia-glx in testing. There has been some discussion
on the list recently regarding some updates to
X.org video drivers, which have unfortunately caused my existing
nvidia setup to no longer work, so currently I am using the "nv"
driver. From the instructions it would seem my current card (Geforce FX
5200) should be supported by the "non-legacy" or regular driver.
According to the testing status page (http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=nvidia-glx)
it would seem that testing is waiting for the newer driver package,
which seems to be ATM availalbe in sid/unstable.
Question - is it "safe" to retry the nvidia driver at this point? Last
I tried, I ended up with a fairly unusable system and had to renstall
most of X and go back to using the nv driver.
If that is doable, I figure it would be better to do this the "debian
way" and although I posted about this before, I probably would want to
go ahead and add unstable sources to my sources.list and install that
way.
Or, I could wait until these are available in testing, but I don't have
a clue low long that would take. (In a previous thread, it was opined
that it would only take a few days or so.)
Hints?
thanks.
Yes, the current kernel will not let you compile the module for the
nvidia drivers. There is a patched driver out that you can use that
will work that gets around this problem: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=88132#88132
This is what happens when you try to run the official nvidia driver
script: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432746
Sam
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