[GLLUG] Debian 2.2r6 and nvidia video card
Dpk
dpk@egr.msu.edu
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 08:45:48 -0400
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:58:34PM -0500, Matt Graham wrote:
On Wednesday 17 April 2002 21:45, Don Chorman wrote:
> I would like to use NVidia's drivers for a geforce II video card that
> I have. I went to NV's website, and they do provide linux drivers and
> docs. Most of the drivers are RPM's for Redhat, and Suse. They said
> that if you don't have the RH or Suse distro's, then you can build
> the module. Has anyone on the list been able to use NV's drivers with
> debian?
First, you need to be running X 4.something. Normally, this would
be the case, but if you're running Debian "stable", you're using
truly ancient stuff for the most part. If you're not running X
4.something, forget using the evil nVidia module, it won't work
with X 3.3.6.
The source tarballs are completely distro-independent. Get the
source tarballs (they're at the very bottom of the Linux page on
nVidia's site) and the README, then follow the directions in said
README. There are 2 tarballs, NVIDIA_kernel and NVIDIA_GLX. You
need to rebuild the NVIDIA_kernel one every time you start using a
different kernel.
Actually, you can get X 4 packages for potato by adding the following
to your apt/sources.list:
deb http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ xf410_potato/$(ARCH)/
deb http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ xf410_potato/all/
I have used this without problem when it was necessary to run stable
but have updated an X server.
Dennis