Nvidia on new Debian Testing system

William O'Higgins Witteman william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Wed Mar 4 18:01:17 UTC 2009


On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 12:34:30PM -0500, JoeHill wrote:
>
>Setting up Debian for a friend, and it looks like some things have changed with
>xorg.
>
>When I run dpkg-reconfigure, there is nothing in there to change driver,
>resolution, or anything.
>
>I also installed the nvidia config utility, but that failed with a message
>saying there was a missing 'driver' line in xorg.conf. I checked that file and
>it doesn't look anything like I'm used to, it just has 'configured device' in
>the video section.
>
>Any tips on how nvidia works with this new xorg setup?

I have a working Debian xorg.conf using the nvidia proprietary driver
here: http://nerd.cx/index.php/2009/01/13/logitech-marble-mouse/

If you want to use the open source driver (i.e. you don't need 3D or
OpenGL support), just move the comment from the nv driver to the nvidia
line.
-- 

yours,

William

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