Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-22 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:10:03 +0100 Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: Anyone have a link to a good tutorial? http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.html http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers -- CK INGREDIENTS: Bleached Wheat Flour, Sugar, Salt,

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 19 feb 11, 12:43:23, Paul Cartwright wrote: After I posted to the list I found http://linuxinside.blogspot.com/2008/03/debian-nvidia-drivers.html from a text-based terminal ( CTRL-ALT-F1), you run: # sgfxi -c and it runs pulls in the headers for you installs the latest NVIDIA

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 19 feb 11, 20:10:28, Brian wrote: With NVidia the almost automatic response is to dive into the proprietry driver pool. It seems to me that unless 3D is a need (used by less than 5% of users) or the card is not supported well, you are going to be served well by the nouveau driver.

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-21 Thread Brian
On Mon 21 Feb 2011 at 14:51:00 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 19 feb 11, 20:10:28, Brian wrote: With NVidia the almost automatic response is to dive into the proprietry driver pool. It seems to me that unless 3D is a need (used by less than 5% of users) or the card is not supported

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 feb 11, 21:47:47, Brian wrote: Does this count? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23705 This isn't a bug in nouveau but I can appreciate the impact of 96 dpi in some situations. The user could adopt various approaches to alleviating the problem. For example: use

Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running Sid, and have just switched my video from Intel on-board to a NVIDIA based GE 5200. Now I am thoroughly confused about how to install NVIDIAs driver. I DL'ed the latest run file from Nvidia.com, now when I attempt to get it to install the proper module(s), it tells me I need the

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:59:38 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Sid, and have just switched my video from Intel on-board to a NVIDIA based GE 5200. Now I am thoroughly confused about how to install NVIDIAs driver. I DL'ed the latest run file from Nvidia.com, now when I attempt to

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Allan Wind
On 2011-02-19 11:59:38, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Sid, and have just switched my video from Intel on-board to a NVIDIA based GE 5200. Now I am thoroughly confused about how to install NVIDIAs driver. I DL'ed the latest run file from Nvidia.com, now when I attempt to get it to

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:11:29 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:59:38 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Sid, and have just switched my video from Intel on-board to a NVIDIA based GE 5200. Anyone have a link to a good tutorial?

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:13:29 + Allan Wind allan_w...@lifeintegrity.com wrote: On 2011-02-19 11:59:38, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Sid, and have just switched my video from Intel on-board to a NVIDIA based GE 5200. Install the linux-headers-$version package if you want to

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 12:34:31 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:11:29 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, have you tried first with nouveau? That's the first thing I tried . Seemed to be OK, but a little on the slow side compared with my

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:34:31 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:11:29 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: Anyone have a link to a good tutorial? http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers Thanks. Had a look at it, but got a little confused after reading a page or two

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Frank
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:56:51 + Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 12:34:31 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:11:29 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, have you tried first with nouveau? That's the first thing I

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Frank
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:14:14 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:34:31 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:11:29 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: Anyone have a link to a good tutorial? http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:11:29 + (UTC) Camaleónnoela...@gmail.com wrote: After I posted to the list I found http://linuxinside.blogspot.com/2008/03/debian-nvidia-drivers.html from a text-based terminal ( CTRL-ALT-F1), you run: # sgfxi -c and it runs pulls in the headers for you

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:59 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Sid, and have just switched my video from Intel on-board to a NVIDIA based GE 5200. I would recommend to use the DKMS [0] packages to install the proprietary driver for nvidia cards. Which package? ==

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 13:23:22 -0500, Frank wrote: Like I said, might have been an illusion - I have 3 distros on this computer..Sid - Ubuntu Maverick and Ubunty Natty...I have left Maverick with the Nouveau driver so we'll see. I am undecided what to do with Natty...I mean it's already

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/19/2011 02:10 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 13:23:22 -0500, Frank wrote: Like I said, might have been an illusion - I have 3 distros on this computer..Sid - Ubuntu Maverick and Ubunty Natty...I have left Maverick with the Nouveau driver so we'll see. I am undecided what to

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:43:23 -0500 Paul Cartwright deb...@pcartwright.com wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:11:29 + (UTC) Camaleónnoela...@gmail.com wrote: After I posted to the list I found http://linuxinside.blogspot.com/2008/03/debian-nvidia-drivers.html from a

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:43:23 -0500 Paul Cartwrightdeb...@pcartwright.com wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:11:29 + (UTC) Camaleónnoela...@gmail.com wrote: After I posted to the list I found http://linuxinside.blogspot.com/2008/03/debian-nvidia-drivers.html from a text-based

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 14:34:41 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/19/2011 02:10 PM, Brian wrote: With NVidia the almost automatic response is to dive into the proprietry driver pool. It seems to me that unless 3D is a need (used by less than 5% of users) or the card is not supported well, you