Nvidia on new Debian Testing system

[JoeHill]

William O'Higgins Witteman wrote: 

> 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.

It turned out when I went back in to xorg.conf, the nvidia config utility had
in fact rewritten the file properly. I just needed to do ctrl-alt-back and all
was good.

Thanks!

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J
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