Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

[Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com>]

On 25/06/11 20:33, Aidan Gauland wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just upgraded my video card (from a 9400 GT to a GT 430), and when I
> booted my system, X failed to start.  Seeing that the version of the
> Nvidia drivers in sid were the same as those direct from Nvidia's
> website, I tried upgrading the drivers to those from sid.  I restarted
> XDM (via sudo invoke-rc.d xdm restart), but it still failed to start.
> (I have attached the relevant parts of /var/log/xdm.log from immediately
> after this failure, as well as my xorg.conf file.)  I then tried purging
> all nvidia packages (and downgrading back to squeeze any dependencies
> that were pulled in from sid) and installing nvidia-kernel-dkms (as
> instructed by <http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers>), but still
> no joy; the same error.
> 
> What do I need to do to use the Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze?
> 
> Regards,
> Aidan Gauland

I haven't tried the nvidia drivers from Sid - however I do run the
commercial nvidia drivers on Squeeze using the Nvidia installer. See
attached for my xorg.conf

NOTE: mines a legacy Nvidia card:-
scott@work:~$ lspci | grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2
MX200] (rev b2)


Cheers

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# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder63)  Tue Jul 13 13:31:50 PDT 2010

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection