Doesn't Debian have any non-free repositories like Ubuntu (and others) do? If yes, why not just install them? The NVidia driver comes with a proper display configuration tool too... It's not open source though.
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 18:56, Anoop Alias <[email protected]> wrote: > NVIDIA may have proprietary drivers for Linux for the hardware. > > Do google :) > > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Praveen A <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 2010/6/17 Thomas Vazhappilly <[email protected]>: >> > Dear all, >> > I have installed Debian (Lenny) Gnu/Linux 5.0.1 (Stable release I-386) >> in a >> > core2duo machine. >> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7100 GS >> (rev >> > a1) >> > +----------------------------------------------------+ >> > The problem is I dont get the display properly. When I change the >> > System > Preference > Screen Resolution it does not show any values. >> > I tried editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but got no hopeful results. >> > Anyone have any idea? Any help? >> >> I think X server might be using vesa. Can you send /var/log/Xorg.0.log? >> >> You can try the nouveau driver, but it can be quite challenging. You >> can also try the squeeze live cd to see if it has nouveau driver. >> >> squeeze seems to have it in the repo, just try it out. >> http://packages.debian.org/testing/x11/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau >> >> Root of this problem is NVIDIA is not publishing the specification for >> its graphics cards (Intel and AMD/ATI does, so for future purchases it >> is recommended to avoid nvidia). All we have is reverse engineered >> driver and proprietary driver they provide. You could possibly go that >> route as well. >> >> Fedora 13 also has nouveu by default, you can possibly try that if you >> ar eok to move to a different distro. >> >> Praveen >> -- >> പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് >> <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! >> <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? >> (as seen on /.) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List >> http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ >> http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org >> #[email protected] > > > > > -- > Anoop P Alias (PGP Key ID : 0x014F9953) > GNU system administrator > http://GnuSys.net > > _______________________________________________ > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #[email protected] > -- Fayaz Yusuf Khan B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering(2007-2011) Model Engineering College, Kochi, Kerala, India +91-9746-830-823
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