Re: Installing nvidia / lenny / DELL Precision T7500

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

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Andrei Popescu<andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu,02.Jul.09, 15:27:09, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>> After loosing hours on this I gave up and use the official nvidia.sh
>> installer which work out perfectly.
>
> Too bad you weren't pacient enough:
>
> 1. Install nvidia-kernel-source and the linux-headers package for your
> current kernel
> 2. run as root: 'm-a a-i nvidia'
> 3. install nvidia-glx
> 4. edit xorg.conf
>
> ,----[ xorg.conf ]
> | Section "Device"
> |       Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
> |       Driver          "nvidia"
> | EndSection
> `----

Sorry I wasn't clear but I also tried that. I think the root problem
is that I could only get to 173.14.09-5, while I would have needed
something closer to 185.18.14-1. Unfortunately this was pulling way
too much junk I did not care about (what is openvz anyway ?).

Thanks anyway
-- 
Mathieu