On 11/06/11 19:16, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 10:56 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2011-06-11 10:30 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >>> On Vi, 10 iun 11, 15:09:49, Rohit Vaidya wrote: >>>> For NVidia driver installation the Xorg should not be kept running. >>> >>> Why not? Using the Debian packages I never had any issues with that. >> >> The NVidia installer tries to load the kernel module when it's finished, >> and any previous version has to be unloaded first which is not possible >> when X is running. There are some commandline options to override that >> behavior, but by default the installer will abort if X is running. >> >> Sven > > > *?* on Ubuntu it was possible to remove an old version and to add a new > while running a DE. I suspect this is possible on Debian too? > > >
I sincerely doubt it. I'm referring to the proprietary nvidia drivers installed using the proprietary installer. With Squeeze or later nouveau will already be loaded so nvidia module will not load. I usually edit grub during boot (append "nouveau.modeset=0"), boot, console login, download the nvidia driver, su to root, #/etc/init.d/kdm stop (the nvidia installer will not run with x up) locate the kernel version of gcc, export the kernel version of gcc, install the nvidia driver. edit /etc/default/grub to append the nouveau disabling line run update-grub to make change permanent #/etc/init.d/kdm start;exit done! That's pretty much the way the debian wiki said to do it. It may have changed recently. Best check before following my instructions. I hear good things about nouveau - unfortunately my video cards are Gforce2s, best supported with the proprietary driver. I spent ten minutes trying to remove extraneous words from this post Ralf. :-) Cheers -- Tuttle? His name's Buttle. There must be some mistake. Mistake? [Chuckles] We don't make mistakes. -- 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/4df38ab2.9000...@gmail.com
