Yes! That's exactly what I was looking for. I also had to install the nvidia-glx package to allow xorg to use the driver. Thanks a lot!
On 12/31/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 11:24:03AM -0600, Mike Myers wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the tips! I downloaded the etch cd and it detected my card and > installed fine. The only issue now is getting the nvidia driver installed. > The 'nv' driver doesn't work with my widescreen display at all. It looks > like to do this, I need to have a custom kernel so the driver from nvidia > can build a module for it. Might there be an easier way to do this? yup. install the nvidia-kernel package appropriate for your system. you will have to add the 'non-free' repository to your sources.list. edit /etc/apt/sources.list you will find a line like deb http://somemirror.here.org/debian/ etch main add to the end of that line "contrib non-free" without the quotes deb http://somemirror.here.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free use your favorite package manager to update the cache apt-get update aptitude update etc. apt-cache search nvidia-kernel and check out the various packages. probably you want nvidia-kernel-2.6-<arch> or nvidia-kernel-legacy-2.6-<arch> enjoy A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFmA88aIeIEqwil4YRAj9LAJ0eShN9RZzDhHy7lI1RLgBuIFSlsACfYGsM zkLMxr9d88Zj6QPV0/uBkC4= =/eOa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
