Re: Nvidia, apt-get & Synaptic
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 15:48:41 -0500, MLewis wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 14:17:25 -0500, MLewis wrote:
>>> Jochen Schulz wrote:
>>
>> [...]
> > That is how things are these days, with the latest Xorg being able to
>> detect everything automatically, in theory at least. (Only a very
>> minimal xorg.conf is written by "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and it
>> does not specify the video driver at all.)
>>
>> I would first make sure that your nvidia kernel module can be loaded:
>>
>> modprobe -v nvidia
>
> modprobe -v nvidia
> [nothing returned]
>
>> lsmod | grep nvidia
>
> lsmod | grep nvidia
> nvidia 7086148 24
> agpgart 28776 1 nvidia
> i2c_core 19828 2 nvidia,i2c_nforce2
That looks like the module is loaded normally.
>> If that is OK, (re)start X and run
>>
>> grep /drivers/ /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>
> grep /drivers/ /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
OK, fine.
>> to find out which driver is used. If you see the Xorg nvidia module is
>> loaded, check "glxinfo | grep direct" and "glxgears" (package
>> mesa-utils) to see if direct rendering is working.
>
> glxinfo & glxgears were not found.
Install the mesa-utils package, then use these commands to see if direct
rendering is working.
>> If your Xorg keeps using the "nv" driver even though nvidia is
>> available, put
>>
>> Driver "nvidia"
>>
> > into the (otherwise pretty empty) "Device" section of your
> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf and restart X.
>
> Did this. Still 600x480 and no choices to change resolutions.
Check the output of
grep -E '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
to see if there are any errors or warnings. Post the output here if
there is anything.
Try nvidia-settings or maybe xrandr (I don't know if the nvidia driver
supports this fully) for setting the resolution. Check the nvidia
documentation, or try the old fashioned approach in the "Screen" section
of xorg.conf. (I have not used nvidia cards in almost two years, so my
knowledge is unfortunately not current anymore.)
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