Installing nvidia / lenny / DELL Precision T7500

[Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>]

Hi there,

  I am trying to install a debian lenny on a brand new DELL Precision
T7500, with nvidia card (*). The wiki page
http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers is not very helpful as it
does not reflect the current state of hal+xorg (my xorg.conf was empty
for instance).

  Should I simply update to nvidia-glx 185.18.14-1, instead of my
current: 173.14.09-5. BTW is there an up-to-date ziki page explaining
how to install nvidia on a >= lenny system ?

Thanks

(*)
$ sudo lspci -s 03:00.0 -vvx
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 06fd (rev
a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device 062e
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
	Region 0: Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Region 1: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	Region 3: Memory at dc000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
	Region 5: I/O ports at dc80 [size=128]
	Expansion ROM at dfd00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
	Capabilities: [68] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
		Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
	Capabilities: [78] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00
		DevCap:	MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <512ns, L1 <4us
			ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
		DevCtl:	Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal+ Fatal+ Unsupported-
			RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
			MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
		DevSta:	CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend-
		LnkCap:	Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0
<512ns, L1 <1us
			ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
		LnkCtl:	ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
			ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
		LnkSta:	Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x16, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive-
BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
	Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
	Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
	Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information <?>
	Kernel modules: nvidia, nvidiafb
00: de 10 fd 06 07 00 10 00 a1 00 00 03 10 00 00 00
10: 00 00 00 de 0c 00 00 c0 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 dc
20: 00 00 00 00 81 dc 00 00 00 00 00 00 de 10 2e 06
30: 00 00 d0 df 60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0b 01 00 00


-- 
Mathieu