Re: anyone installed nvidia drivers on etch recently?
On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:21:18 +0100
Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com> wrote:
> I'm suffering from repeated crashes in my Eclipse IDE, which is java.
> Restarting it is slow and losing work is never much fun anyway, but I
> thought I'd find a solution until now.
>
> I have 4 approaches to the problem:
> - upgrade java (done that, now on the latest release of JDK 1.5,
> 1.5.0_16)
> - upgrade Eclipse (worst approach, might require me to do a dev
> environment re-install)
> - upgrade Etch to latest packages (done that)
> - upgrade the nvidia driver (trying and failing).
>
> I'm using "nv", so I thought I'd try the proprietary nvidia driver.
>
> Following any of the methods on
> http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers just leads me down the
> same path to the point where I find "nvidia.ko failed to build" in
> the logs.
>
> I'm using the stock kernel 2.6.26-bpo.1-686 from apt, and trying to
> get the nvidia-glx-legacy nvidia-kernel-common
> nvidia-kernel-legacy-2.6-686 packages from non-free to install, but
> using the instruction:
>
> m-a auto-install nvidia
>
> leads to the error "nvidia.ko failed build", as I mentioned above.
>
> The other methods outlined on the wiki fail similarly.
>
> The executable download directly from nvidia.com has the same problem.
>
> Is this whole thing with the proprietary driver a bad idea or just
> something that won't work until I get lenny?
>
> Thanks
> Adam
>
>
>
>
Take a look at this link:
-- http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.html
Thanks to Len Sorenson for keeping me straight...8-)
Jack
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