Re: nvidia driver debian way and 3D

2009-05-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 09:29:53AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: Hi: with amd64 lenny, i have installed the nvidia driver (OpenGL 2.1.2 NVIDIA 173.14.04) for a GeForce 6600?PCI?SSE2 card along the Debian way, according to the Lennart Sorensen recipe), with additional GLSL support for some

nvidia driver debian way and 3D

2009-05-03 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi: with amd64 lenny, i have installed the nvidia driver (OpenGL 2.1.2 NVIDIA 173.14.04) for a GeForce 6600?PCI?SSE2 card along the Debian way, according to the Lennart Sorensen recipe), with additional GLSL support for some scientific graphics. When my wife attempts to explore the museum Louvre

Re: nvidia driver debian way and 3D

2009-05-03 Thread Klaus Becker
On Sunday 3 May 2009 09:29:53 Francesco Pietra wrote: Hi: with amd64 lenny, i have installed the nvidia driver (OpenGL 2.1.2 NVIDIA 173.14.04) for a GeForce 6600?PCI?SSE2 card along the Debian way, according to the Lennart Sorensen recipe), with additional GLSL support for some scientific

Re: nvidia driver debian way and 3D

2009-05-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
Francesco Pietra wrote: Hi: with amd64 lenny, i have installed the nvidia driver (OpenGL 2.1.2 NVIDIA 173.14.04) for a GeForce 6600?PCI?SSE2 card along the Debian way, according to the Lennart Sorensen recipe), with additional GLSL support for some scientific graphics. When my wife attempts

Re: nvidia driver debian way and 3D

2009-05-03 Thread Klaus Becker
On Sunday 3 May 2009 11:35:12 you wrote: youll notice if you click on requirements you get a link to some third party plugin. which only supports windows and mac. Dean I just tried http://musee.louvre.fr/expo-imaginaire/escalierdesambassadeurs/fr/index.html and it works fine, and it's 3d.

Re: nvidia driver debian way and 3D

2009-05-03 Thread Robert Isaac
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Klaus Becker colon...@free.fr wrote: I just tried http://musee.louvre.fr/expo-imaginaire/escalierdesambassadeurs/fr/index.html and it works fine, and it's 3d. Klaus It also doesn't use the 3DVIA-player plugin that the first link uses. You basically have

Re: nvidia driver debian way and 3D

2009-05-03 Thread Cavan Mejias
* ask 3DVIA to port their plugin to Linux http://www.3dvia.com/need-more-helhttp://www.3dvia.com/need-more-help **p* http://www.3dvia.com/need-more-help * * **I'll be interested to see the chances of that, seeing as they provide M$'s Virtual Earth program. But you never know. * *

Re: nvidia driver debian way and 3D

2009-05-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
youll notice if you click on requirements you get a link to some third party plugin. which only supports windows and mac. Dean Klaus Becker wrote: On Sunday 3 May 2009 09:29:53 Francesco Pietra wrote: Hi: with amd64 lenny, i have installed the nvidia driver (OpenGL 2.1.2 NVIDIA 173.14.04

Re: Re: NVIDIA driver ... fails to compile (again)

2007-01-07 Thread Gleidson Echeli Leopoldo
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NVIDIA driver ... fails to compile (again)

2007-01-02 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hello. I use make-kpkg (from kernel-package deb) to compile the Nvidia driver (I've just downloaded version 1.0.8776-3 of nvidia-kernel-source). Then I get (after building kernel 2.6.19.1): ---CUT--- NVIDIA: calling KBUILD... make CC=gcc-4.0 -C /home/eran/system/kernel/source/linux-2.6.19.1

Re: NVIDIA driver ... fails to compile (again)

2007-01-02 Thread Randall Donald
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 00:00 +0100, Gilles Sadowski wrote: Hello. I use make-kpkg (from kernel-package deb) to compile the Nvidia driver (I've just downloaded version 1.0.8776-3 of nvidia-kernel-source). Then I get (after building kernel 2.6.19.1): 1.0.8776 won't compile against 2.6.19

nvidia-driver

2006-11-04 Thread kees
. 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

Re: nvidia-driver

2006-11-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
Hi Kees did you get my original post? would you like assistance getting your 6600gt running? please be awair that the debianized nvidia driver is your best option. i have used your card extensively in debian linux for amd64 cpus i have since upgraded to sli'd 7900gs's. all work perfectly

Re: nvidia-driver

2006-11-04 Thread hendrik
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

Re: nvidia driver

2006-11-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free and there is an update in that repository for mpg123 for Sarge, so it would appear that they do, but I might be wrong after all I am a n00b that's only used GNU/Linux for 5 years. Hmm, that's true. On the other hand for things like the nvidia driver

Re: nvidia-driver

2006-11-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
to sweep away the rubbish and install a brand new debian system. But before I do so, I have to be sure that the nvidia driver will work the right way, that is with GLX. I hope that you understand that it is impossible for me to tell you in detail everything I tried in putting my system

nvidia driver

2006-11-03 Thread kees
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

Re: nvidia driver

2006-11-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
the nv driver is... substandard on modern cards the nvidia bundled driver doesnt work on debain however it is repacked and well maintained. this is possibly the most frequent question on this list. so heres a quick summary build the nvidia driver using module-assistant m-a prepare m-a a-i

Re: nvidia driver

2006-11-03 Thread Gaius Mulley
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

Re: nvidia driver

2006-11-03 Thread Jo Shields
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

Re: nvidia driver

2006-11-03 Thread cbergmann
On Friday 03 November 2006 12:40, kees wrote: Hello folks, Although the problem I am talking about is a general debian problem/bug, ... 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

Re: nvidia driver

2006-11-03 Thread Jo Shields
the NVidia driver, guess what - it breaks some more. Packages are provided for a good reason. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nvidia driver

2006-11-03 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:59:41AM +, Jo Shields wrote: On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 11:40 +, kees wrote: 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.

Re: nvidia driver

2006-11-03 Thread cbergmann
breaks. Whenever a change is made to packaging structure, it breaks too. If you uninstall the NVidia driver, guess what - it breaks some more. Packages are provided for a good reason. Hi Jo, You are right, it might have been luck - but I wouldn't call it 'dumb'. First of all, its no secret

Re: nvidia driver

2006-11-03 Thread Dave Ewart
On Friday, 03.11.2006 at 14:50 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, its no secret which files are installed by the Nvidia installer: there is a detailed list with files and destinations in Appendix C of the Nvidia Readme. Having a list of files is not much help, if you're using two

Re: nvidia driver

2006-11-03 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:59:41AM +, Jo Shields wrote: O RLY? http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/nvidia-glx http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/nvidia-glx Yep, just etch is sucky that way. sarge and sid have packages. Is there a policy for getting non-free packages pushed into

Re: nvidia driver

2006-11-03 Thread Lennart Sorensen
of the Nvidia Readme. Second, I have often heard the complaints over broken systems. However, I did never observe any of these problems, not even after uninstalling the Nvidia driver. An upgrade from Sarge to Etch also worked flawlessly (except the Nvidia driver itself, which has

Re: nvidia driver

2006-11-03 Thread Dimitris Lampridis
apt - Next switch to a new directory where you wish to build the nvidia drivers - Before you build them, you might need to draw a few more packages on which nvidia driver sources depend: apt-get build-depnvidia-glx - Finally, you can get and build the sources with: apt-get

Re: nvidia driver

2006-11-03 Thread Robert Isaac
Sarge is a stable release, and hence will not get ANY updates. Except, of course, security fixes. ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nvidia driver

2006-11-03 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:50:58PM -0500, Robert Isaac wrote: Except, of course, security fixes. ;-) Does Debian even try to do security fixes for non-free? -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nvidia driver

2006-11-03 Thread Robert Isaac
On 11/3/06, Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:50:58PM -0500, Robert Isaac wrote: Except, of course, security fixes. ;-) Does Debian even try to do security fixes for non-free? There is a non-free repository at security.debian.org and the debian.org/security

Re: Nvidia driver lock-up (was (Re: Flightgear crashes (the program,not the pilot))

2006-10-15 Thread Russ Cook
, Per your suggestion, I ran strace startx, and piped the output to startx.log (attached). Also attached is /var/log/Xorg.0.log . I was running the nvidia driver for this test (config file also attached). After starting the Xserver, I tried to open my Home folder. The frame came up, but the files

Re: Nvidia driver lock-up (was (Re: Flightgear crashes (the program,not the pilot))

2006-10-15 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
examine it later. Good luck and regards ! Hans Hans, Per your suggestion, I ran strace startx, and piped the output to startx.log (attached). Also attached is /var/log/Xorg.0.log . I was running the nvidia driver for this test (config file also attached). After starting

Re: Nvidia driver lock-up (was (Re: Flightgear crashes (the program,not the pilot))

2006-10-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
suggestion, I ran strace startx, and piped the output to startx.log (attached). Also attached is /var/log/Xorg.0.log . I was running the nvidia driver for this test (config file also attached). After starting the Xserver, I tried to open my Home folder. The frame came up, but the files never

Re: Nvidia driver lock-up (was (Re: Flightgear crashes (the program,not the pilot))

2006-10-07 Thread Jo Shields
was running the nvidia driver for this test (config file also attached). After starting the Xserver, I tried to open my Home folder. The frame came up, but the files never appeared. SSH from another machine, and running top showed Xorg running 100% on one processor (I have a dual core machine). Any

Re: Nvidia driver lock-up (was (Re: Flightgear crashes (the program,not the pilot))

2006-10-07 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
). Also attached is /var/log/Xorg.0.log . I was running the nvidia driver for this test (config file also attached). After starting the Xserver, I tried to open my Home folder. The frame came up, but the files never appeared. SSH from another machine, and running top showed Xorg running 100

Re: Re: Nvidia driver lock-up (was (Re: Flightgear crashes (the program,not the pilot))

2006-09-29 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Russ, sry, my late answer, I did somehow miss your mail. Well, if nv crashes and nvidia without Load GLX-Option, then there might be another non nvidia dependent problem. What does it show, if you disable kdm and start manually X with the command startx from the shell ? Is there a

Re: Nvidia driver lock-up (was (Re: Flightgear crashes (the program, not the pilot))

2006-09-19 Thread Hans
, Russ Hi Russ, as far as I know flightgear needs rendering software, just opengl. At start it looks in its configfile, and tries to set the settings and initialising the scenery. IMO you MUST have an opengl-driver working ! Otherwise it will crash. Why does the nvidia-driver not work

Re: Nvidia driver lock-up (was (Re: Flightgear crashes (the program, not the pilot))

2006-09-19 Thread Russ Cook
the nvidia-driver not work ? It should, if you use the Debian packages and compile the nvidia-kernel-module on your own, and, additionally install the package nvidia-glx. Good luck ! Hans Hans, Today I upgraded to 2.6.17-2-amd64, used the debian Nvidia packages, compiled nvidia-kernel

Nvidia driver lock-up (was (Re: Flightgear crashes (the program, not the pilot))

2006-09-18 Thread Russ Cook
. At start it looks in its configfile, and tries to set the settings and initialising the scenery. IMO you MUST have an opengl-driver working ! Otherwise it will crash. Why does the nvidia-driver not work ? It should, if you use the Debian packages and compile the nvidia-kernel-module on your own

Re: Nvidia driver lock-up (was (Re: Flightgear crashes (the program, not the pilot))

2006-09-18 Thread Russ Cook
, just opengl. At start it looks in its configfile, and tries to set the settings and initialising the scenery. IMO you MUST have an opengl-driver working ! Otherwise it will crash. Why does the nvidia-driver not work ? It should, if you use the Debian packages and compile the nvidia-kernel-module

nvidia-driver out of date ?

2006-03-01 Thread Alexander Jede
Hi list, I have a Nvidia GPU and now I have installed the driver in the version 1.0.7174-3. Isn't there a newer driver for debian? I'd like use one from the porttree and not the one from the nvidia homepage. There is the newest version : Linux Display Driver - AMD64/EM64T Version: 1.0-8178

Re: nvidia-driver out of date ?

2006-03-01 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 15:40, Alexander Jede wrote: Hi list, I have a Nvidia GPU and now I have installed the driver in the version 1.0.7174-3. Isn't there a newer driver for debian? I'd like use one from the porttree and not the one from the nvidia homepage. There is the newest version

Re: nvidia-driver out of date ?

2006-03-01 Thread Randall Donald
On Wed, 2006-01-03 at 20:40 +0100, Alexander Jede wrote: Hi list, I have a Nvidia GPU and now I have installed the driver in the version 1.0.7174-3. Isn't there a newer driver for debian? I'd like use one from the porttree and not the one from the nvidia homepage. There is the newest version

Re: nvidia-driver out of date ?

2006-03-01 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Jede wrote: | Hi list, | I have a Nvidia GPU and now I have installed the driver in the version | 1.0.7174-3. | Isn't there a newer driver for debian? | I'd like use one from the porttree and not the one from the nvidia | homepage. There is

Re: nvidia-driver out of date ?

2006-03-01 Thread Alexander Jede
Am Mittwoch, den 01.03.2006, 11:46 -0800 schrieb Randall Donald: ... For now look here: http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia/dists/unstable/nvidia-graphics-drivers/binary-amd64/ .. Thanks it works fine. But why they aren't in the official debian-tree? Had I missed any announce? Alex --

Re: Nvidia driver bypasses xorg.conf settings

2006-02-20 Thread Robert Isaac
On 2/19/06, Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lennart Sorensen wrote: Just how exactly can 60hz ever be nicer on the eyes? Well unless it is an LCD in which case it doesn't matter. Well, even on a CRT, if the higher refresh rate pushes above the monitor's maximum dot clock, the

Re: Nvidia driver bypasses xorg.conf settings

2006-02-17 Thread A J Stiles
, and yes, I guess it's not the most expensive screen around. But it's new and I am very happy with it at 60Hz. ... The nvidia driver has a tendancy to take the DDC data as above all. The README file for the nvidia driver in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/ should say how you can force it to ignore

Re: Nvidia driver bypasses xorg.conf settings

2006-02-17 Thread Helge Hafting
A J Stiles wrote: On Thursday 16 Feb 2006 19:13, Lennart Sorensen wrote: If 60Hz is the preferred rate, then why is the monitor telling the computer that it should run at 75Hz? Surely *that* is the question. {Of course, it could all just be due to a badly-shielded cable . that

Nvidia driver bypasses xorg.conf settings

2006-02-16 Thread Land Haj
For some reason, using the nvidia driver makes xorg use the wrong vertical refresh rate. My monitor can do 75 Hz at full resolution, but 60 Hz is recommended and much more comfortable for the eyes. All was fine until I* built a custom kernel by copying the config for a stock kernel and adding

Re: Nvidia driver bypasses xorg.conf settings

2006-02-16 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 16. Februar 2006 19:22 schrieb Land Haj: For some reason, using the nvidia driver makes xorg use the wrong vertical refresh rate. My monitor can do 75 Hz at full resolution, but 60 Hz is recommended and much more comfortable for the eyes. All was fine until I * built a custom

Re: Nvidia driver bypasses xorg.conf settings

2006-02-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:22:58AM -0800, Land Haj wrote: For some reason, using the nvidia driver makes xorg use the wrong vertical refresh rate. My monitor can do 75 Hz at full resolution, but 60 Hz is recommended and much more comfortable for the eyes. All was fine until I Just how

Re: Nvidia driver bypasses xorg.conf settings

2006-02-16 Thread Land Haj
but the nvidia driver, since:a) Everything worked fine before (i e I used nvidia drivers and had 60Hz)b) Swithing from nvidia drivers to the nv driver gives me 60 Hz.I don't think I misconfigured xorg.conf, since I had it working with the older kernel + nvidia and didn't change anything in it./landhaj

Re: Nvidia driver bypasses xorg.conf settings

2006-02-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
' doesn't help when I try it. Switching back to the older kernel doesn't help either. I don't think there's a problem with anything but the nvidia driver, since: The nvidia driver has a tendancy to take the DDC data as above all. The README file for the nvidia driver in /usr/share/doc/nvidia

Re: Nvidia driver bypasses xorg.conf settings

2006-02-16 Thread Land Haj
ching back to the older kernel doesn't help either. I don't think there's a problem with anything but the nvidia driver, since:The nvidia driver has a tendancy to take the DDC data as above all. TheREADME file for the nvidia driver in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/ shouldsay how you can force it to ignore

Re: Nvidia driver bypasses xorg.conf settings

2006-02-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:36:15AM -0800, Land Haj wrote: Thank you, your mail made me check the changelog for nvidia-glx more carefully. I did this sloppily the first time as I never changed driver or kernel version and it worked before. Adding 'Option UseEdidFreqs no ' to the device

Re: Nvidia driver bypasses xorg.conf settings

2006-02-16 Thread Raimund Jacob
Land Haj wrote: hi! For some reason, using the nvidia driver makes xorg use the wrong vertical refresh rate. My monitor can do 75 Hz at full resolution, but 60 Hz is recommended and much more comfortable for the eyes. All was fine until I the nvidia driver now by default ignores your

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-22 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 10:47:46AM +, Tony Power wrote: On 11/21/05, Corey Hickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again! Now I have another problem. After installing nvidia drivers, my consoles (ctrl+alt+F1,F2,...) have a diferent color. Not the normal black and white. Now I get

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-21 Thread Corey Hickey
Hi again! Now I have another problem. After installing nvidia drivers, my consoles (ctrl+alt+F1,F2,...) have a diferent color. Not the normal black and white. Now I get blue (background) and white (characters) consoles, and most of the times, fuzzy blue and white. Sometimes I get a complete

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-21 Thread Tony Power
On 11/21/05, Corey Hickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again! Now I have another problem. After installing nvidia drivers, my consoles (ctrl+alt+F1,F2,...) have a diferent color. Not the normal black and white. Now I get blue (background) and white (characters) consoles, and most of the times,

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-21 Thread Corey Hickey
Tony Power wrote: 1. At what point are your consoles messed up? Do they look weird right after the nvidia module loads, or only after you start X and switch back to a console? They get messed up after I start X and then switch to console mode. (blue and white) And when

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-20 Thread Tony Power
. If anyonone can help, I appreciate that. Thank you.I don't know if this will help, but I had to use a custom modeline on myToshiba laptop to make it work right at 1400x1050. The nvidia driver was reading the EDID as (if I recall correctly) 1360x1050 and there was anannoying black bar at the right hand side

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-19 Thread Tony Power
right at 1400x1050. The nvidia driver was reading the EDID as (if I recall correctly) 1360x1050 and there was anannoying black bar at the right hand side of the screen.Try making these modifications to your xorg.conf:1. Set HorizSync to 29-49 (according to the EDID info in your log that is correct

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 04:03:39PM +, Jo Shields wrote: 2.6.14 requires newer drivers than those in sarge or sid: Is this only true on amd64? I know my i386 is running 2.6.14 with the 71xx drivers just fine. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-18 Thread Tony Power
install the nvidia driver, or will the X-Org driver give mean unaccelerated graphical display? You can use the nv driver in the mean time. That's what I have been using here and it works fine. I don't know for sure what the difference is but I think if you want 3D acceleration (for gaming) you

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 07:13:40PM +, Tony Power wrote: Well, It worked fine! Thanks. The only think I can't do is to define 1280x800 resolution. I could do it with the nv driver. I've tried all sorts horizsync and vertrefresh on xorg.conf, and I can't make it work 1280x800. I have an

How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-18 Thread Tony Power
-- Forwarded message --From: Tony Power [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Nov 18, 2005 9:58 PM Subject: Re: How to install nvidia driverTo: Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]Hi Lennart! Well, I tried that but my LCD turned very colourful, like it was melting. And, yes, the log says something

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-18 Thread Corey Hickey
. If anyonone can help, I appreciate that. Thank you. I don't know if this will help, but I had to use a custom modeline on my Toshiba laptop to make it work right at 1400x1050. The nvidia driver was reading the EDID as (if I recall correctly) 1360x1050 and there was an annoying black bar at the right

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-17 Thread Graham Smith
/installation.html This tutorial is very nice, but I am not sure if it is an official debian recommendation and if it will work for AMD64 too. Can you comment on this? Are there other tutorials around? Will I have only textmode available until I install the nvidia driver

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-17 Thread Jo Shields
/Debian-nVidia/installation.html This tutorial is very nice, but I am not sure if it is an official debian recommendation and if it will work for AMD64 too. Can you comment on this? Are there other tutorials around? Will I have only textmode available until I install the nvidia driver, or will the X-Org

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-17 Thread Tony Power
on this? Are there other tutorials around? Will Ihave only textmode available until I install the nvidia driver,or will the X-Org driver give mean unaccelerated graphical display?You can use the nv driver in the mean time. That's what I have been usinghere and it works fine. I don't know for sure what the difference

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-17 Thread Jo Shields
only textmode available until I install the nvidia driver, or will the X-Org driver give me an unaccelerated graphical display? You can use the nv driver in the mean time. That's what I have been using here and it works fine. I don't know for sure what

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-16 Thread Marlon Régis Schmitz
by xorgconfig: Section Device Identifier NVidia GForce FX5200 Driver nvidia #Driver nv #VideoRam131072 # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate #Option UseEdidFreqs true Option ConnectedMonitorCRT,TV Option TwinViewtrue

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-16 Thread v0n0
On 11/15/05, Gilles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I have an not so powerfull/new nvidia card, may card is FX5200. [...] Some other notes: the 7174 does not compile om 2.6.14, as one can see in the discussion about that (http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/11/msg00233.html),

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:35:26PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: here here is that likely to happen though? No. I suspect they consider the development costs too high and the competition too high for them to release any such stuff at this time. ATI seems to release enough specs for their older

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-15 Thread A J Stiles
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 06:35, Dean Hamstead wrote: here here is [mandatory full disclosure] likely to happen though? Dean Just maybe, but we will have to fight for it. As I've already suggested, it's a common-law property right; but right now, too few people care about it for

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-15 Thread Marlon Régis Schmitz
up to date and get a new kernel version(linux-image-2.6.14...), so a must to compile a new nvidia driver(I like do the things in this way). But the 7174 driver does not compile fine. So let's go get 7676 from nvidia. This compiles and runs fine and a surprise to me! the TV-out has work

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-15 Thread Gilles
Hi. I have an not so powerfull/new nvidia card, may card is FX5200. [...] Some other notes: the 7174 does not compile om 2.6.14, as one can see in the discussion about that (http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/11/msg00233.html), and until today I have not saw the new package

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-15 Thread Ricardo Mones
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 08:02:29PM +0100, Gilles wrote: Nevertheless, I still have that problem about having to plug a TV cable (although I'm not using the TV-out) because otherwise, the digital output does not send the video signal to the monitor upon X server startup. If you find a

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-15 Thread Christoph Fassbach
Ricardo Mones wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 08:02:29PM +0100, Gilles wrote: Nevertheless, I still have that problem about having to plug a TV cable (although I'm not using the TV-out) because otherwise, the digital output does not send the video signal to the monitor upon X server startup.

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-14 Thread A J Stiles
On Sunday 13 November 2005 00:01, Stefan Salewski wrote: Hello, next week I will try to install debian-amd64 on a new computer with a nvidia graphic card (7800GTX). I don't really like these closed source drivers from ati and nvidia, but I think I have to use it. You probably *don't* have

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-14 Thread A J Stiles
On Monday 14 November 2005 11:18, Jo Shields wrote: Nobody buys a £400 graphics card for slow 2D If I had paid £400 for a piece of hardware, I would expect it to come with a neatly-bound programmer's manual explaining everything I would need to know to write my own driver. If I own the card,

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-14 Thread Jo Shields
A J Stiles wrote: On Sunday 13 November 2005 00:01, Stefan Salewski wrote: Hello, next week I will try to install debian-amd64 on a new computer with a nvidia graphic card (7800GTX). I don't really like these closed source drivers from ati and nvidia, but I think I have to use it.

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-14 Thread Dean Hamstead
here here is that likely to happen though? Dean A J Stiles wrote: On Monday 14 November 2005 11:18, Jo Shields wrote: Nobody buys a £400 graphics card for slow 2D If I had paid £400 for a piece of hardware, I would expect it to come with a neatly-bound programmer's manual explaining

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-13 Thread hjalmar
? Will I have only textmode available until I install the nvidia driver, or will the X-Org driver give me an unaccelerated graphical display? Thank you for your support Stefan Salewski -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-12 Thread Stefan Salewski
for AMD64 too. Can you comment on this? Are there other tutorials around? Will I have only textmode available until I install the nvidia driver, or will the X-Org driver give me an unaccelerated graphical display? Thank you for your support Stefan Salewski -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-12 Thread Alan Ianson
if it is an official debian recommendation and if it will work for AMD64 too. Can you comment on this? Are there other tutorials around? Will I have only textmode available until I install the nvidia driver, or will the X-Org driver give me an unaccelerated graphical display? You can use

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-12 Thread Gilles
Hi. next week I will try to install debian-amd64 on a new computer with a nvidia graphic card (7800GTX). Difficulties with the nvidia driver have been discussed at length for several weeks. You might want to read the thread that starts at http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/11

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-12 Thread Christoph Fassbach
Well, I did not read any of the refered pages yet. I did not know why I should. Right now I am using an GeForce 6600LE powered PCI-X card with the NVidia drivers. Sure, it could be more comfortable or their license could be better, but they are running quite nice. I did it this way: - got a

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-12 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 04:01:46AM +0100, Christoph Fassbach wrote: Well, I did not read any of the refered pages yet. I did not know why I should. Right now I am using an GeForce 6600LE powered PCI-X card with the I'm sure you meant PCI-E. Although many of us may wish it, no manufacturers

nvidia driver error - xorg doesn't start

2005-10-18 Thread antonio giulio
Hi, I have in /etc/modules 'nvidia' and my kernel is 2.6.12. After last update I cannot enter in kdm more. I got error for 'screens not found etc.', but nvidia is present in '/etc/modules'. If I launch 'modprobe nvidia', kdm starts. However when I try to enter in KDE, it returns to kdm login page

Re: nvidia driver error - xorg doesn't start

2005-10-18 Thread Mike Dobbs
: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 9:03 AM Subject: nvidia driver error - xorg doesn't start Hi, I have in /etc/modules 'nvidia' and my kernel is 2.6.12. After last update I cannot enter in kdm more. I got error for 'screens not found etc.', but nvidia is present in '/etc/modules'. If I launch 'modprobe

Re: nvidia driver error - xorg doesn't start

2005-10-18 Thread Andreas Richter
Am Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2005 16:03 schrieb antonio giulio: Hi, Hi, However when I try to enter in KDE, it returns to kdm login page again. have the same problem here. But it is a segfaulted ssh-agent. Have you activated ssh-agent in /etc/X11/Xsession.options? So comment this out and try

Re: nvidia driver error - xorg doesn't start

2005-10-18 Thread Andreas Richter
Am Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2005 17:17 schrieb antonio giulio: However when I try to enter in KDE, it returns to kdm login page again. have the same problem here. But it is a segfaulted ssh-agent. Have you activated ssh-agent in /etc/X11/Xsession.options? So comment this out and try again

Re: nvidia driver error - xorg doesn't start

2005-10-18 Thread antongiulio05
However when I try to enter in KDE, it returns to kdm login page again. have the same problem here. But it is a segfaulted ssh-agent. Have you activated ssh-agent in /etc/X11/Xsession.options? So comment this out and try again a login. Yes, now it works. Does it block eventually CVS

Re: nvidia driver overrides gdm.conf AutomaticLogin !?? SOLVED!

2005-10-08 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Am Freitag, den 07.10.2005, 15:57 -0700 schrieb Ali H. Caliskan: Mike was right about modules-assist, since the new nvidia-kernel that I compiled manually(make-kpkg modules_image) works fine with gnome login manager! Wow. I had the problem for some weeks under x86 and nobody could help. Great

Re: nvidia driver overrides gdm.conf AutomaticLogin !?? SOLVED!

2005-10-08 Thread Ali H. Caliskan
driver, can bee relatively easy :) I tried to build manually with my stock kernel but it didn't work, since the nvidia driver couldn't build. I don't know why but I followed Andrews guide(http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html). However, building nvidia drivers as a kernel

nvidia driver overrides gdm.conf AutomaticLogin !??

2005-10-07 Thread Ali H. Caliskan
Hi! I've been searching in google and reading docs without any result in solving this irritating problem I have. When I replace the nv driver to nvidia driver in xorg.conf file, nvidia seems to change or override the gdm.conf so that each time I boot I end up in gdmgreeter insteed of gnome

Re: nvidia driver overrides gdm.conf AutomaticLogin !??

2005-10-07 Thread Mike
Message - From: Ali H. Caliskan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 2:25 PM Subject: nvidia driver overrides gdm.conf AutomaticLogin !?? Hi! I've been searching in google and reading docs without any result in solving this irritating problem I

Re: nvidia driver overrides gdm.conf AutomaticLogin !??

2005-10-07 Thread Ali H. Caliskan
Subject: nvidia driver overrides gdm.conf AutomaticLogin !?? Hi! I've been searching in google and reading docs without any result in solving this irritating problem I have. When I replace the nv driver to nvidia driver in xorg.conf file, nvidia seems to change or override

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