john gennard wrote: > I'm still trying to install nvidia drivers. I started by > installing the .debs for nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src > and using the documentation then available. This I found > somewhat confusing - nontheless I soldiered on.
I found them confusing as well. But once you work through them a time or two everything starts to make sense. > Eventually, I got 'nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123-4.deb' created > and installed it with 'dpkg -i'. Where does this next command say it installed the NVdriver file? Does that match your current kernel? dpkg -L nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123 | grep NVdriver > 'dpkg -l' shows:- > ii nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123 NVIDIA binary kernel module > Can anyone explain why the nvidia kernel cannot be seen? This nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123 would match kernel-image-1.0.3123 which seems an unlikely kernel version. On my machine I have these installed. Notice that the versions match. nvidia-kernel-2.4.20-2-k7 kernel-image-2.4.20-2-k7 I think the NVdriver is not installed where your kernel can find it. Rather than try to debug your current configuration I suggest you follow these steps which I will include and build the driver again matching your kernel. (Of course I could be guessing wrong about your kernel version. :-) The following are my own notes on installing the proprietary nVidia driver. Assumption: You are in group 'src' and can therefore write to /usr/src as yourself and do not need root for that purpose. If not: su adduser $LOGNAME src exit exec login $LOGNAME Assumption: You have 'sudo' installed. But if you don't that is fine. Just jump to root with 'su' for the commands marked 'sudo'. Only those commands should be run as root. All of the others are run as yourself. But sudo is very useful. So: su apt-get install sudo echo "$LOGNAME ALL=ALL" >> /etc/sudoers exit sudo id Bob ================================================================ Bob's guide to installing the nVidia driver on Debian Installing the proprietary nVidia driver. The nVidia driver is a closed source proprietary driver. It cannot be legally shipped with a free software distribution. Therefore if you wish to use this driver then you must agree with their license, download it from nVidia, and build it for your system. If you don't like doing this then support free software. You can either use the free "nv" driver which unfortunately is not as capable or ask nVidia to change their license into a free license. Get the bits onto your machine If you are going to be installing offline then you will need to get the NVIDIA_*tar.gz files from nVidia prior to doing the installation. This will be done automatically if you are online. Again, this step is only needed if you are building on a machine which is not online. cd /usr/src wget http://205.158.109.140/XFree86_40/1.0-2880/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2880.tar.gz wget http://205.158.109.140/XFree86_40/1.0-2880/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2880.tar.gz ... then copy the files to your offline machine ... Use the Debian source installer packages. Note that kernel-source-2.4.20 is available in woody-proposed-updates. cd /usr/src sudo apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src nvidia-glx-src sudo apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.20 Build the kernel modules Note that I am using the kernel-image-2.4.20-2-k7 from the woody-proposed-updates section. But this should work with whichever kernel you are using. Replace -2.4.20-2-k7 with the appropriate version from your kernel. cd /usr/src tar xzf nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz # /usr/src/modules/... tar xjf kernel-source-2.4.20.tar.bz2 cd kernel-source-2.4.20 cp /boot/config-2.4.20-2-k7 .config make-kpkg clean fakeroot make-kpkg --append_to_version -2-k7 modules_image cd /usr/src sudo dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-*.deb Build the graphics drivers cd /usr/src/nvidia-glx-1.0.2880 fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc cd /usr/src sudo dpkg -i nvidia-glx*.deb # two packages {,-dev} Configure X for this driver ... edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ... Driver "nvidia" Option "UseFBDev" "true" #Option "NoLogo" "true" # Your preference... Remove from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 the following drivers. GLcore # OpenGL support (conflicts with nvidia) dri # Direct rendering infrastructure (conflicts with nvidia) Leave only these modules in the list. dbe # Double-buffering extmod # Misc. required extensions glx # OpenGL X protocol interface type1 Reference Information /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html
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