> I am not new to the linux way of things but I am new to the debain > way of things and I have some questions that need to be answered. To > start, I need to ket rid of nouveau as it's screwing with uvesafb > (produces an 'Error -22'). I added it to > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf but it's still being loaded. Nouveau > is > also only using the top-left quarter of my laptop's display and it's > rather annoying. Once I can get rid of Nouveau I can then work on > getting my nvidia driver loaded and I can use X ... as it stans > nouveau is also not working correctly with X ... I get a very > corrupt > display but otherwise functional, just very hard to see. > > P.S. I tried hitting freenode/#debian but they were utterly useless > in > trying to actually help, people there were actually rather rude to > me, > I was told more then once to search google (which btw offered no > real > solutions). > .
This is from my install notes, may not be for the version of Debian you have installed, but hope it helps Tim. --- nvidia drivers I did this with lenny 5.x got this info from http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers make sure non-free is included in the /etc/apt/sources.list file remember to apt-get update after changing the sources file run the script at the following location to find out which drivers to use http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=nvidia-versions.sh assuming you can use all / default drivers (My current card can) then do apt-get install module-assistant nvidia-kernel-common m-a auto-install nvidia-kernel-source apt-get install nvidia-glx in /etc/X11/xorg.conf add the line to the Device section Driver "nvidia" restart X and test, you want to see "direct rendering: Yes" with: glxinfo | grep rendering -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
