Re: Installing nvidia / lenny / DELL Precision T7500
After loosing hours on this I gave up and use the official nvidia.sh
installer which work out perfectly.
The only trick was to:
export CC=gcc-4.1
to avoid a complain from the installer.
Ref:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_185.18.14.html
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Mathieu
Malaterre<mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> wrote:
> After much struggle I was able to preserve the Xorg.log file (my
> machine would lock when gdm restarting into default empty xorg.conf
> file after a failed nvidia one).
>
> Here it is attached.
>
> ...
> (II) Setting vga for screen 0.
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
> (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
> (II) NVIDIA(0): enabled.
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA kernel module does not appear to be receiving
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): interrupts generated by the NVIDIA graphics device
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): PCI:3:0:0. Please see Chapter 8: Common Problems in the
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): README for additional information.
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
> (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> (II) UnloadModule: "wfb"
> (II) UnloadModule: "fb"
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> ...
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Mathieu
> Malaterre<mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
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