Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: so as a NORMAL user you cd to the folder, then MAGIC, you are root to run a command.. Please forgive my naivety in not recognizing the sarcasm in that. sorry, would I meant to say was, there must be a step or two left out. Obviously you

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: It appears you are using the stock kernel. There is a precompiled nvidia driver available for this kernel. It is in the non-free section. You might want to try that. what driver would that be?? apt-get install nvidia-kernel-`uname -r`

The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat February 23 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: FWIW, I find the nvidia driver to be worth the little effort required. http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers I was reading that page, following along, but I got to this part and I don't understand how to FIX it: and then choose the

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat February 23 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: FWIW, I find the nvidia driver to be worth the little effort required. http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers I was reading that page, following along, but I got to this part and I don't understand how to FIX it:

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Linux paulandcilla 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux It appears you are using the stock kernel. There is a precompiled nvidia driver available for this kernel. It is in the non-free section. You might want to

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Linux paulandcilla 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux It appears you are using the stock kernel. There is a precompiled nvidia driver available for this kernel. It is in the non-free section.

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Raj Kiran Grandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: so as a NORMAL user you cd to the folder, then MAGIC, you are root to run a command.. I have never seen such magic. Changing to a

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Patrick Wiseman wrote: so as a NORMAL user you cd to the folder, then MAGIC, you are root to run a command.. Please forgive my naivety in not recognizing the sarcasm in that. I have never seen such magic. Changing to a directory giving you root access? Something is very odd. Inspect your