Re: install proprietary nvidia driver without xorg.conf?
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Michael M. Moore
<michael@writemoore.net> wrote:
> I thought I'd try the proprietary nvidia driver (currently using 'nv'),
> so I've been reading through the how-to on the wiki here:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
>
> I'm a little concerned, though, that it might be out-of-date (for one,
> because it keeps talking about Etch), especially given the changes in
> xorg. Specifically, step 3:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#ConfigureXtousethenvidiadriver
>
> It says for Lenny you have to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to load "glx"
> module and remove "dri" or "GLCore" modules, under the "Module" section;
> and that you need to change the driver (from "nv" to "nvidia") under the
> "Device" section.
>
> My xorg.conf has no module section and the "Device" section is only:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Configured Video Device"
> EndSection
>
> I thought HAL had taken over some of the functions formerly handled in
> xorg.conf, but there's no mention of that on the wiki doc.
>
> So what exactly is the procedure for installing the proprietary driver
> now?
here is a way to install the official nvidia driver, not the debian way.
1. remove all the packages with name "nvidia-****", for they might be
conflict with the driver we will install, such as:
nvidia-glx - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
nvidia-glx-dev - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver development files
nvidia-glx-ia32 - NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver
nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver (96xx legacy version)
nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx-dev - NVIDIA Xorg driver development files
(96xx legacy version)
nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx-ia32 - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver (96xx legacy version)
nvidia-kernel-2.6-amd64 - NVIDIA binary kernel module for 2.6 series
compiled for amd64
nvidia-kernel-2.6-openvz-amd64 - NVIDIA binary kernel module for 2.6
series compiled for openvz-amd64
nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-1-amd64 - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux
2.6.26-1-amd64
nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-1-openvz-amd64 - NVIDIA binary kernel module for
Linux 2.6.26-1-openvz-amd64
nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-2-amd64 - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux
2.6.26-2-amd64
nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 - NVIDIA binary kernel module for
Linux 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64
nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-2.6-amd64 - NVIDIA binary kernel module for
2.6 series compiled for amd64
nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-2.6-openvz-amd64 - NVIDIA binary kernel
module for 2.6 series compiled for openvz amd64
nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-2.6.26-1-amd64 - NVIDIA binary kernel module
for Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (legacy version)
nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-2.6.26-1-openvz-amd64 - NVIDIA binary kernel
module for Linux 2.6.26-1-openvz-amd64 (legacy version)
nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-2.6.26-2-amd64 - NVIDIA binary kernel module
for Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (legacy version)
nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 - NVIDIA binary kernel
module for Linux 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 (legacy version)
nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-source - NVIDIA binary kernel module source
(96xx legacy version)
nvidia-kernel-source - NVIDIA binary kernel module source
nvidia-cg-toolkit - NVIDIA Cg Toolkit Installer
nvidia-kernel-common - NVIDIA binary kernel module common files
nvidia-settings - Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
3. install the linux-headers packages that is appropriate to your kernel.
-------------------
mlaks@Rashi:~$ dpkg -l|grep linux-headers|grep 2.6.26
ii linux-headers-2.6-amd64 2.6.26+17
Header files for Linux 2.6-amd64
ii linux-headers-2.6.26-1-amd64 2.6.26-13
Header files for Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64
ii linux-headers-2.6.26-1-common 2.6.26-13
Common header files for Linux 2.6.26-1
-----------------------
4. make a symlink for the headers
-----------------------------------------
mlaks@Rashi:~$ ls -l /usr/src/linux
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 29 2008-12-11 00:56 /usr/src/linux ->
linux-headers-2.6.26-1-amd64/
--------------------------------------
5. download the nvidia drivers for your card from nvidia
driver download page, it looks something like this:
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.15-pkg2.run
6. check the gcc of your machine, install it if not exists,
for example it is /usr/bin/gcc-4.1
7. shut down X and you run as root to exe this command
-------------------------
export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.1;./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.15-pkg2.run
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8. complete the process and restart the machine to X window.
9. if you have installed mesa on your machine, you should know that
the driver we installed just now also includes opengl implementations,
so relative shared library files like /usr/lib/libGL***.so have been
replaced by the new driver. In fact, that's the right cause of our
installation of the non-free driver, for mesa's opengl implementation
has a bug which caused the crash.(Just a guess, might be false)
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