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Re: Installing nvidia / lenny / DELL Precision T7500



On Thu,02.Jul.09, 23:15:27, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> 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

... and module-assistant

> > 2. run as root: 'm-a a-i nvidia'
> > 3. install nvidia-glx
> > 4. edit xorg.conf
> 
> 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 ?).

That's probably because you tried to install nvidia-glx first (step 3).  
In testing and unstable there is no nvidia-kernel-<kernel-version> 
package, you have to build it yourself (step. 1 and 2)

Regards,
Andrei
P.S. No need to CC me, I'm subscribed
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