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Re: Nvidia, apt-get & Synaptic



On Tue,28.Oct.08, 14:17:51, MLewis wrote:

> Thanks for the link Jack. Very good instructions, but I'm missing
> something. When I do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg I am not asked about
> any video options at all. Something I must have missed along the way.

You're not missing anything. Xorg in Lenny now does a lot of automatic
configuration and will usually detect the correct driver, but in this 
particular case it doesn't. Just make sure you have the nvidia-glx 
package (or nvidia-glx-legacy, depending on your chip--see the package 
descriptions) installed and you will need to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and 
add a line

	Driver "nvidia"

in the "Device" section. It might work without it (haven't tested
myself) if you don't have the xserver-xorg-video-nv package, though I
prefer to keep it installed, just in case nvidia is making trouble.

Such precautions are usually not necessary on stable (which lenny is 
very close to). 

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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