Re: NVIDIA card & lenny
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 11:26:48 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> I just did the dist-upgrade to Lenny ( I love a challenge:)
> when it came up after a reboot, of course it went to the text login prompt, no
> KDM. I'm used to that, this is my 2nd DELL desktop running linux with NVIDIA
> graphics cards..
> it seems envy isn't supported yet in lenny, and I can't get the NVIDIA*.run to
> work. it complained about GCC versions ( I don't remember the exact text).
We need to see the exact text; there is no point in wasting our time
guessing. Just copy the relevant part of the installer log.
> I have this card:
> "nVidia Corporation GeForce 7300 LE"
>
> and this run file:
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.19-pkg1
>
> and I'm running KDE and this:
> k$ uname -a
> Linux paulandcilla 2.6.22-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:24:01 UTC 2007 i686
> GNU/Linux
You won't have an nvidia module for this kernel until the installer
script runs without errors.
> I changed xorg.conf to "nv" from "nvidia" to get it working, but I'd like to
> run the NVIDIA driver.
> if there is a list for lenny or testing or another list I should be asking in,
> please point me tuit, thanks.
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