Le Mar 9 avril 2013 18:59, David Christensen a écrit : > I have used the proprietary NVIDIA driver in the past, but would like to > use the free Debian drivers instead.
Free NVidia drivers by Debian does *not* exists. There is only a package which installs NVidia's drivers. The easier and simpler, if you do not need good 3D acceleration is to install "nouveau" instead of NVidia, which is a driver made from reverse engineering. In last kernels (around 3.8), it seems that there is also support for better 3D acceleration, however I did not tried it since Debian at the moment only have that kernel in experimental (and when I tried it, few things broke. Did not investigate though). Nouveau have the very good feature of not needing any Xorg.conf file: you install it, you boot with it, it detects everything alone. In short: _ nouveau: free software, perfect integration in the system, average and unfinished support (in linux 3.2 kernel) of 3D harware acceleration, support all cards: both new and old(nouveau-vieu is what you would want). _ NVidia: proprietary software, bad integration in the system, support for advanced 3D features, no support for old cards. > 2. How do I determine the current color depth (e.g. 8/16/24 bits per > pixel)? IIRC: xrandr --output <port you used: VGA, HMDI, etc> --list > 3. How do I change the display settings -- resolution, refresh, color > depth? xrandr --output <port you used> --mode <your parameters> Play with xrandr in a terminal emulator, and when you have what you want, add the command to your DE's startup list (depends on your DEs) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/fa889e62f916e1ac2600cc11dcf07cbe.squir...@www.sud-ouest.org