Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]
On Jan 24, 2008 5:36 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> What does /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so look like?
I haven't had a chance to check that yet (I put my laptop away and
it's charging now). However I think I've figured out the problem (see
below...)
On Jan 24, 2008 6:23 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com> wrote:
> try downloading the latest nvidia driver from nvidia.com and running the
> NVIDIA*.run file..
> a new one just came out recently..
Thanks for that lead. On Thinkwiki.org
(http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/NVidia_Quadro_NVS_140m), I found that
support for my chip began with the Nvidia 100.14.09 driver version
(June 2007), while the etch stable package nvidia-glx uses the
1.0-8776 version (Oct 2006). Just to make sure, I looked at the
README and sure enough, my graphics card isn't in there. This
probably explains why it isn't working.
On Jan 24, 2008 4:32 PM, Jimmy Wu <jimmywu013+debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Graphics card is Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M, which is listed on the
> official Nvidia site as supported.
Apparently I was looking at the list for the latest (and wrong) driver
version (http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_18897.html).
Now, on to a solution. The unstable nvidia-glx does support my card,
but I want to run the stable distribution. I know there are ways to
configure apt/aptitude/sources.lst to have a mixed system, but is
going through that worth it for just one package from the unstable
distribution? (I'm avoiding the Nvidia installation script because I
want to do this the "debian way" - it seems "cleaner" and has the
added advantage of being integrated into the package management
system.)
Thanks again,
--
Jimmy
Registered Linux User #454138
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