On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 11:40 +0000, kees wrote: > Hello folks, > Although the problem I am talking about is a general debian problem/bug, > I am > sending my message to this list, as there seems to be no list adequate > for this subject and > the machine I am working on is a amd64. > The problem is the impossibility to get a working nvidia driver with glx. > In the past 10 years or so, I never had any problem with my several > nvidia cards/drivers > on debian, but now it seems to be impossible to get things right. > The problem is, that when I compile a kernel with the builtin nv driver, > I cannot get > glx, which I need for my work with opengl.
The kernel does not include any drivers called "nv". XFree86 and XOrg do - and the kernel includes a framebuffer driver called nvidiafb > So I abandoned the builtin driver, but now there seems to be no debian > package for > nvidiakernel+glx (I am using etch but the same is true for the other > releases). O RLY? http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/nvidia-glx http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/nvidia-glx > I tried to install the driver etc. via the *.run file downloaded from > nvidia, but this > also did not work (got complaints/errors about not finding the driver > module, although > the driver existed and was loaded). Which error precisely? It's impossible to give adequate support for inadequate questions - can you imagine a car mechanic being asked to provide the appropriate fixes for "there's a blinky light on the thing, next to the thing"? > Although I am no newby (I am working with linux for about 15 years), You ran Linux the year the 0.0.1 kernel was written as a drop-in for Minix, and about two years before Yggdrasil Linux (the first ever distribution) had its first release? Impressive. > I could have made some stupid mistake. But I have the impression that > debian is fighting > a small war with nvidia with the result that the owners of nvidia > hardware will suffer. Works for me. > I hope I am mistaken in this but without a solution I am bound to > abandon debian > which I will regret very much after so many years working with this fine > distribution. > Therefore I would be very glad to recieve hints/solutions to solve this > problem. So give information which it's possible to support. 1) What's your hardware? 2) What's your kernel? 3) What's the expected behaviour? 4) What, precisely, is the actual behaviour? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]