Re: [FOLLOWUP] video card reccomendation

[Mark Allums <mark@allums.com>]

On 10/3/2010 2:52 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-10-03 21:27 +0200, Mark Allums wrote:
>
> > The full procedure is:
> >
> >
> > update-pciids
>
> Hardly useful or necessary with an old card as the GF6200.
>
> > apt-get install module-assistant nvidia-kernel-source
> > m-a prepare
> > m-a a-i nvidia
>
> The nvidia-kernel-module-dkms package should make these steps
> unnecessary.
>
> > depmod -a
>
> Unnecessary, the postinst of the nvidia-kernel-$(uname-r) package runs
> depmod for you.
>
> > modprobe nvidia
>
> Not necessary but may help to diagnose problems if the module fails to
> load.
>
> > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
>
> Useless in Squeeze, better set up xorg.conf by hand or run
> nvidia-xconfig.
>
> Sven


With DKMS, you may have to run through this all one time, then 
install/configure the DKMS package.

dpkg-reconfigure only needs to be run once.  Not necessary once first 
install of glx driver is done.

Check to make sure all your X packages are up-to-date.  If they are, 
nvidia-xconfig will work properly.

My understanding that xorg was evolving away from xorg.conf.  I know 
that X has been ignoring my settings in xorg.conf, and doing whatever it 
wants to.  (It's frustrating).