On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 14:00:51 -0400 Rick Pasotto <rick@niof.net> wrote: <snippy> > I bought a GeForce 6200. So far it's working well for me and solved > the bus overload problem I was having. > > However I do have a couple of questions. I installed (with aptitude) > nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-686 which is supposed to give me the nVidea > driver binaries. X aborted because it could not find the nvidia > module. The 'nv' driver works fine. > > 'dpkg -L nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-686' shows what got installed was: > > /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/nvidia/nvidia.ko > > The 'nv' driver is in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so. > > Does xorg need to be told about the different path? Is there some > command I need to run to tell the kernel about the nvidia driver? > What's the difference between '.ko' and '.so'? > > As I said, things are working fine it's just that I'm curious as to > why the nvidia driver was not found. You need the following packages: nvidia-glx : user-space bites libgl1-nvidia-glx : libgl1 for the nvidia driver nvidia-libvdpau1 : Makes vdpau work nvidia-settings : Settings for the nvidia driver nvidia-xconfig : builds a working xorg.conf nvidia-kernel-2.6-686 : Meta package will keep the nVidia kernel modules in lockset with new stock kernels Run # nvidia-xconfig This will setup the xorg.conf Then reload X Also see [1] [1] http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Installation-1 ------ Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97
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