Re: [Emc-users] Wheezy and Nvidia

2015-01-23 Thread John Thornton
Just for SG I downloaded the Wheezy Gnome 3 live cd and booted from that. I got this Gnome error: Gnome 3 Failed to Load Unfortunately GNOME 3 failed to start properly and started in the fallback mode. This most likely means your system (graphics hardware or driver is not capable of delivering

Re: [Emc-users] Wheezy and Nvidia

2015-01-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 21 January 2015 12:11:32 Charles Steinkuehler did opine And Gene did reply: On 1/21/2015 10:16 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Charles: Do you have a good link that would guide me in building a recent xenomai kernel in amd64 format that would at least run the axis sim? See the

Re: [Emc-users] Wheezy and Nvidia

2015-01-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 21 January 2015 07:44:49 Charles Steinkuehler did opine And Gene did reply: On 1/20/2015 8:47 AM, schoone...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi John No, you are right there is something screwy about the Wheezy distro and nvidia I ran the build manually on the 3.4.9-rtai-pae

Re: [Emc-users] Wheezy and Nvidia

2015-01-21 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 1/21/2015 10:16 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Charles: Do you have a good link that would guide me in building a recent xenomai kernel in amd64 format that would at least run the axis sim? See the bottom half of this page: http://xenomai.org/2014/06/building-debian-packages/ ...or you may be

Re: [Emc-users] Wheezy and Nvidia

2015-01-21 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 1/20/2015 8:47 AM, schoone...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi John No, you are right there is something screwy about the Wheezy distro and nvidia I ran the build manually on the 3.4.9-rtai-pae install, after the package install using DKMS failed (log attached) The crucial bit is at the end

Re: [Emc-users] Wheezy and Nvidia

2015-01-20 Thread schoone...@btinternet.com
Hi John No, you are right there is something screwy about the Wheezy distro and nvidia I ran the build manually on the 3.4.9-rtai-pae install, after the package install using DKMS failed (log attached) The crucial bit is at the end 'FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses

[Emc-users] Wheezy and Nvidia

2015-01-19 Thread John Thornton
I have a desktop computer with built in video. It is a Nvidia GeForce 6150SE nForce 430. When I try any driver besides the stock driver using info from the web one of two things happen, it reports that the driver is broken and won't install it or if it installs and I add an xorg file the

Re: [Emc-users] Wheezy and Nvidia

2015-01-19 Thread schoone...@btinternet.com
Hi John I have a Nvidia GT630 GPU card working fine on Wheezy 32 64 bit Works with nouveau and if you download the nvidia-glx package, DKMS builds the driver fine (you need headers and a build environment) What you then need to do however is add /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf as

Re: [Emc-users] Wheezy and Nvidia

2015-01-19 Thread alex chiosso
I John. I've got same problem as you with an asus graphic card (nviadia gpu) and Debian wheezy. No way to install the nvidia drivers properly. At the end of a long story I re-install the LinuxCNC Wheezy distribution and leave the video drivers it automatically detect and it is fine (resolution

Re: [Emc-users] Wheezy and Nvidia

2015-01-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 19 January 2015 10:20:53 schoone...@btinternet.com did opine And Gene did reply: Hi John I have a Nvidia GT630 GPU card working fine on Wheezy 32 64 bit Works with nouveau and if you download the nvidia-glx package, DKMS builds the driver fine (you need headers and a build