[Leaplist] Is there any way to tell...

[Austin Denyer (Ozz)]

On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:01:51 -0500, ray <ssma at sunstatemartialarts.com>
wrote:
>
> woo, ty, what about any clue on the vid card issue?

I did some Googling and found this (for Fedora, dual-head):

http://www.linuxcompatible.org/MSI_NX7600GS-T2D256E_Geforce_7600GS_256MB_128-bit_GDDR2_PCI_Express_x16_Video_Card_c12733.html

With Debian the procedure to install the nVidia drivers is usually to
use Module-Assistant:

"m-a a-i nvidia"

which does the following:
1) installs "build-essential" and "nvidia-kernel-source" and
"linux-headers-$(uname -r)"
2) runs the scripts provided by nvidia-kernel-source in order to create
nvidia-kernel-$(uname -r)
3) installs the newly created nvidia-kernel-$(uname -r)_
$NVIDIAVERSION.deb package

The "nvidia-glx" package depends on nvidia-kernel-$NVIDIAVERSION -
however, this package doesn't actually exist. It's a virtual package,
which is provided by nvidia-kernel-$(uname -r)_$NVIDIAVERSION.deb

Hence nvidia-glx won't install unless you run "m-a a-i nvidia" first, in
order to provide the kernel module package.

Then you may need to make some changes to your Xorg.conf file.

The nVidia drivers can be a pain to install on any distro at times.
Let me do some research on your card tomorrow and I'll get back to you
if I find anything out.

Regards,
Ozz.

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