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Re: X doesn't start after installing debian



On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:49:29AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:24:04PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
>  
> > After you installed nvidia-glx, did you run m-a to build the necessary kernel 
> > modules like the instructions tell you?
> 
> Huh? AFAIK in stable you have prebuild module packages.

There are several inter-related nvidia packages and then a command to
set-up the nvidia driver (I forget which command, I ran it once a year
ago).  You have to use a package search tool to find them all, install
them, then update man-db (run the cron-job manually), then apropos
nvidia.

I found it very helpful to get X running using nv first (as a
fall-back).  If nv doesn't work on your hardware, get it running with
vesa.  Then copy /etc/X/xorg.conf to xorg.conf.nv or .vesa

Doug.


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