Re: nvidia 9800 GT with nouveau on wheezy

2013-04-29 Thread Michael
Karl, I can see nvidia-kernel-source in my debian unstable package list, though i have no 'src' line in sources.list. Probably because that package can not have a binary counterpart unless you used it :) When i used this package (along nvidia-glx and module-assistant) in the past, i just

Re: nvidia 9800 GT with nouveau on wheezy

2013-04-29 Thread Michael
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Re: nvidia 9800 GT with nouveau on wheezy

2013-04-26 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Don't use the nvidia package from debian for googleearth. They do not work, as the 32-bit-libs of nvidia have dependency problems. Obviously no one cared for this at the moment. Just download the installer from the nvidia website and execute it -

Re: nvidia 9800 GT with nouveau on wheezy

2013-04-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 04:08:58PM +0200, Giacomo Mulas wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Don't use the nvidia package from debian for googleearth. They do not work, as the 32-bit-libs of nvidia have dependency problems. Obviously no one cared for this at the moment.

Re: nvidia 9800 GT with nouveau on wheezy

2013-04-26 Thread Karl Schmidt
Nvidia's refusal to be Linux friendly is well known and they leave messes behind - but back to my original question: does anyone use nouveau on later nvidia cards ? How well does it work? ( I've read that it supports dual heading ) .. I saw a few more kernel bugs for nouveau listed while I

Re: nvidia 9800 GT with nouveau on wheezy

2013-04-24 Thread Karl Schmidt
On 04/24/2013 12:00 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Don't use the nvidia package from debian for googleearth. They do not work, as the 32-bit-libs of nvidia have dependency problems. Obviously no one cared for this at the moment. Just download the installer from the nvidia website and execute it -

nvidia 9800 GT with nouveau on wheezy

2013-04-23 Thread Karl Schmidt
I was trying to get google earth to work with the proprietary driver - it fails, so I thought I would try the nouveau driver as it now supports dual monitors. Never got it to recognize the card ( seems strange as wheezey is just about stable? ) I followed the error -16 back to kernel issues

Re: nvidia 9800 GT with nouveau on wheezy

2013-04-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Don't use the nvidia package from debian for googleearth. They do not work, as the 32-bit-libs of nvidia have dependency problems. Obviously no one cared for this at the moment. Just download the installer from the nvidia website and execute it - works like a charm! Good luck! Hans -- To