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

[ray]

Austin (Ozz) Denyer wrote:
> 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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many thanks.  I am waiting on that new hard drive to arrive before i 
install so it will be late this week i hope.

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Raymond L. Brunkow
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