Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> >> It appears you are using the stock kernel. There is a precompiled nvidia
> >> driver available for this kernel. It is in the non-free section. You
> >> might want to try that.
> >
> > what driver would that be??
>
> apt-get install nvidia-kernel-`uname -r`
> (or)
# apt-get install nvidia-kernel-`uname -r`
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-6-686 is already the newest version.
nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-6-686 set to manual installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

> apt-get install nvidia-kernel-legacy-`uname -r`
> then,
> apt-get install nvidia-glx (or) nvidia-glx-legacy
l# apt-get install nvidia-glx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package nvidia-glx is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package nvidia-glx has no installation candidate

is this for Etch?


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Paul Cartwright
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