Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?

2012-05-21 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 16/05/12 12:12, aditya menon wrote: Hello everyone, Can you give me an easy way to install drivers for this card *Nvidia GeForce GT520M*? I'm on a laptop. I've tried many things, including this command: aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r` nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glxfrom an

Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?

2012-05-21 Thread Jeffrey Langerak
Hi, Rescue mode is not a must to do, opening a terminal and stopping the current display manager also works. It's a must to have the build-essential package installed and the kernel headers / sources, so that should be: apt-get install build-essential linux-source linux-headers Else the

Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?

2012-05-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 20 May 2012 08:35:34 +0530, aditya wrote in message CAJeCY3wTT67dN80pGEKyDxbB=_avw=foc1hmkxdhbm_ljaf...@mail.gmail.com: (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00@00:02:0 (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found ..you have no Section Screen in your xorg.conf. Fix that.

Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?

2012-05-19 Thread aditya menon
Hi Tom and everybody, Really sorry, I'll make sure to never reply personally again. It's kind of common sense, I should have resisted the temptation to just hit the reply button on every mail... I'll send all mail to debian-user@lists.debian.orgfrom now - that's the right thing right? You can

How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?

2012-05-16 Thread aditya menon
Hello everyone, Can you give me an easy way to install drivers for this card *Nvidia GeForce GT520M*? I'm on a laptop. I've tried many things, including this command: aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r` nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glx from an answer I got on StackOverflow. Everything I do

Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?

2012-05-16 Thread Tom
Hey, Can you give me an easy way to install drivers for this card *Nvidia GeForce GT520M*? Everything I do results in X failing to start. Is your laptop by any chance crippled with Optimus weirdness? I'd never heard of it until recently, when I bumped into the exact same problem (sadly on

Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?

2012-05-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
http://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/nvidia-graphics-drivers On 16/05/12 12:12, aditya menon wrote: Hello everyone, Can you give me an easy way to install drivers for this card *Nvidia GeForce GT520M*? I'm on a laptop. I've tried many things, including this command: aptitude install

Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?

2012-05-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 16 May 2012 15:42:35 +0530, aditya wrote in message CAJeCY3xZ5JbNZKqvFs5BBZnXmnfoWWfaw-=nlzeqkpgfhes...@mail.gmail.com: Hello everyone, Can you give me an easy way to install drivers for this card *Nvidia GeForce GT520M*? ..is this the card that was considered mid-level in 2006, or

Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?

2012-05-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-05-16 14:50 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2012 15:42:35 +0530, aditya wrote in message CAJeCY3xZ5JbNZKqvFs5BBZnXmnfoWWfaw-=nlzeqkpgfhes...@mail.gmail.com: Hello everyone, Can you give me an easy way to install drivers for this card *Nvidia GeForce GT520M*? ..is this