Re: intall nvidia driver on debian lenny
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 19:21:00 +0200, Bogdan Marian wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
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>>>> Bogdan Marian wrote:
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>> [...]
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>>>> Nick, I'm running Lenny, so nvidia-glx is not in the repos...
>>>> Michal, I tried the methods on that page and it didn't work... Last
>>>> thing i tried was to install the NVIDIA way, using the Nvidia .bin
>>>> supplied from their home site...still no luck.
>>>>
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>> Which kernel do you run? (Post the output of "uname -a".)
>>
>> Which nvidia card are we talking about? (Post the relevant part of your
>> "lspci" output.)
>>
>> Which version of the nvidia driver did you install? (We need the exact
>> name of the file that you downloaded and executed.) Did you get any
>> error messages or warnings when you attempted the installation?
>>
>> Change your xorg.conf to use the nvidia driver and (re)start X. After it
>> fails/crashes, run the following two commands and post their output:
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>> egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
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>> egrep -i 'nvidia|glx' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
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>>
> Hello,
>
> I'm using FX5200, and i installed the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.19-pkg1.run
> package. Here is what's written in the log files and I think is relevant:
>
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions
> is
> (II) NVIDIA(0): enabled.
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
> (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> (II) UnloadModule: "wfb"
> (II) UnloadModule: "fb"
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
Please provide ALL the information that I asked for in my previous
message.
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