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Re: Nvidia Proprietary Driver



On 10/16/2010 12:37 PM, David Baron wrote:
As followup to my post on Nouveau, which I would prefer using, the
installation of the gallium experimental driver involves too many experimental
packages. I installed nvidia's driver (for newer 620GeForce 6200 TurboCache)
without a hitch ... almost.

AFTER X is up, the consoles (alt-shift-F1...) are garbled. Text is very large

Interesting.  For me, it's <ctrl>-<alt>-<F1>.

and doubled up vertically. So consoles are unusable and their "bottom" where
text is entered is way down under.

I am using Xorg from Sid and  2.6.32.5 linux-image from Sid. Is there some way

Does that mean you're running a mixed Testing/Sid system?

to rectify this, i.e. some console setup script I can run in local rc or such?


Even though the nvidia driver in Sid is showing it's age, the GeForce 6200 is pretty old, so it "should" work, and does w/ my 7300SE.

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