On 2010-10-03 20:00 +0200, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:51:20PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: >> I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the regular >> bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the openchrome >> driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play games, so it's >> mostly for text, web, and an occasional video file. >> >> What would be the least expensive card for my needs? > > I bought a GeForce 6200. So far it's working well for me and solved the > bus overload problem I was having.
A sad move IMHO, you should have listened to the guys who recommended against NVidia. > However I do have a couple of questions. I installed (with aptitude) > nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-686 which is supposed to give me the nVidea > driver binaries. X aborted because it could not find the nvidia module. The current nvidia-kernel modules do not support your card anymore, you need the 173xx legacy driver. There are no prebuilt modules for it, so your best bet is to install the nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-dkms package. > The 'nv' driver works fine. Maybe it does now, but NVidia has announced to stop supporting in the future, and I think it will be removed from Debian at some point after the Squeeze release. Would be nice if you could give the nouveau driver a try, it is already the default in Squeeze. > 'dpkg -L nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-686' shows what got installed was: > > /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/nvidia/nvidia.ko > > The 'nv' driver is in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so. > > Does xorg need to be told about the different path? Is there some > command I need to run to tell the kernel about the nvidia driver? > What's the difference between '.ko' and '.so'? .ko indicates a kernel module, .so a shared object file. Think of them as kernelspace vs userspace drivers. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87aamv9kmz....@turtle.gmx.de
