On 02/15/2011 07:36 PM, Noah Duffy wrote:
Secondly, I'm going to have to figure out exactly how to install the nVidia drivers for my video card. I've seen that I can do it manually or with the non-free repository. I haven't tried the first method, but installing nvidia-glx just seemed to cause me problems (I think this may have been the wrong package).
Google is your friend. Searching for:
NVIDIA video driver installation notes debian squeeze
I found this:
http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
Digging through NVIDIA's web site just now, I found this:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/260.19.36/README/index.html
That said, I recently installed Debian i386 5.0.8 (Lenny) on a Asus
NVIDIA nForce geForce and AMD Athlon system and wanted to use NVIDIA's
proprietary video driver. I've done this before, so I went to their web
site, surfed around for Linux video drivers, downloaded the one for my
system (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.36.run), installed the necessary Debian
packages (binutils, gcc, make, linux-headers-2.6.26-2-686), rebooted
into single-user mode, set the CC environment variable
(CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.1), and ran the script. (Understand that it took
several failed attempts to figure everything out. I keep a log.txt file
for all my systems, and suggest that you do the same.)
David