Emailed too soon -- I was actually able to run the nvidia installer script without a problem this time around (mysteriously!) so I am now all set up and can resume setting up the new Debian box.
Thanks again to everyone for your advice and patience! On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Jeff Soules <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can also see that I've disabled glx output and restricted screen >> > resolution to 1024x768 or lower (non-widescreen resolutions) in the >> > hope that this might help, but no luck so far. > > > I should've been clearer -- I made those changes through dpkg-reconfigure. > (I've grown > quite comfortable with the menu interface to Xorg.conf in the last 24 > hours!) > > And, BTW, you're using etch, right? >> > Correct. > > lspci shows one VGA-compatible device, the line is: > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0402 > (rev a1) > > I should've looked harder at the Xorg.0.log I got when I ran with the VGA > drivers; it told > me directly that the VGA driver does not support 24-bit color depth, so it > unloaded > itself. I set this back down to 8-bit color, and just like that I can load > up a minimal > gnome desktop. > > Sadly it has decided the correct resolution is 320x200, which is not yet > very useful -- > I can't even see to reposition any of the control panels -- when I was > hoping once I > got a minimal setup I could use that as a base to finish configuring the > nVidia-supplied > drivers. But at least this is wonderful progress! Thank you! > > > On that note -- > > You could also try if you can install the newest nvidia driver on Etch >> with nvidia's own installer script: >> >> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_173.14.09.html >> >> It might help if you get a newer kernel from www.backports.org first. >> Also make sure that you purge (not just remove) the Debian nvidia >> packages before you try this. >> > > I had originally tried to run nvidia's installer, but it complained that it > would have to > recompile the kernel with its own hooks to load the nvidia driver. So I > downloaded > and gunzipped the kernel source package, but nVidia's script couldn't find > version.h > under the directory where source was installed, so I eventually gave up and > tried > what was supposed to be "the debian way". > (Sorry, that's rather inexact -- I did this several days ago and it was > before > I started taking careful notes of exactly every command I was running.) > > I'll mess around with this a bit more and then report back. > > Best, > Jeff >
