Re: Installing nvidia-driver removes xorg

2018-11-09 Thread Gregory Sharp
On Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:10:38 +0100 floris wrote: > Gregory Sharp schreef op 2018-11-08 19:01: > > > > Questions: > > > > 1) Why should xorg be uninstalled when nvidia-driver is installed? > > > > 2) What might be a recommended upgrade path for me? > > From bug 903770 [1]: > > ... the nvid

Re: Installing nvidia-driver removes xorg

2018-11-09 Thread floris
to CUDA 9 in backport, I learned that installing nvidia-driver (either version: 384.130 or 390.87) would uninstall xorg, gdm3, libreoffice, and many other seemingly useful packages. Questions: 1) Why should xorg be uninstalled when nvidia-driver is installed? 2) What might be a recommended

Re: Installing nvidia-driver removes xorg

2018-11-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 13:01:26 -0500 Gregory Sharp wrote: Hello Gregory, >1) Why should xorg be uninstalled when nvidia-driver is installed? Doesn't want to remove xorg here. As nvidia-driver is a metapackage, it's not entirely necessary to install it in any case. -- Regards _ / )

Installing nvidia-driver removes xorg

2018-11-08 Thread Gregory Sharp
installing nvidia-driver (either version: 384.130 or 390.87) would uninstall xorg, gdm3, libreoffice, and many other seemingly useful packages. Questions: 1) Why should xorg be uninstalled when nvidia-driver is installed? 2) What might be a recommended upgrade path for me?

Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/20/2011 02:01 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 20 mai 11, 09:14:21, Vladimir Morozov wrote: Dear sirs, how to restore ability to install official NVidia driver? The latest driver 270.* included in debian package is buggy for my adapter, so i need to downgrade to previous one. There are no

Re: Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-05-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 20 mai 11, 09:14:21, Vladimir Morozov wrote: > Dear sirs, > how to restore ability to install official NVidia driver? > The latest driver 270.* included in debian package is buggy for my > adapter, so i need to downgrade to previous one. There are no > corresponding working package in SID so

Re: Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-05-19 Thread Vladimir Morozov
Dear sirs, how to restore ability to install official NVidia driver? The latest driver 270.* included in debian package is buggy for my adapter, so i need to downgrade to previous one. There are no corresponding working package in SID so the only way is to use NVidia driver from their site. Wi

Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-03-30 Thread Jason Filippou
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/30/2011 04:28 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Ron Johnson >>  wrote: >>> >>> On 03/30/2011 02:36 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Ron Johnson  wrote: > >

Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-03-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/30/2011 04:49 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: Then it's as simple as: # apt-get -t testing install nvidia-glx Indeed it was, thanks a million. Gotta love Debian... -- "Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the li

Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-03-30 Thread Jason Filippou
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/30/2011 02:36 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Ron Johnson >>  wrote: >>> >>> On 03/30/2011 08:00 AM, Jason Filippou wrote: Hello list, I've been running my testing box's graphics thro

Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-03-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/30/2011 04:28 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/30/2011 02:36 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/30/2011 08:00 AM, Jason Filippou wrote: Hello list, I've been running my testing box'

Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-03-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 30 mar 11, 22:08:40, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > 1. Add non-free sources in /etc/apt/sources.list > >You should have a line like: > > deb http://ftp.XX.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free > > Where XX has to be replaced with your country code. The important part is

Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-03-30 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 16:00 +0300, Jason Filippou wrote: > I've been running my testing box's graphics through the NVIDIA > proprietary driver, downloaded from their website. However, after > recent updates, logging into my debian box is only possible through > text mode, no X server is started.

Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-03-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/30/2011 02:36 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/30/2011 08:00 AM, Jason Filippou wrote: Hello list, I've been running my testing box's graphics through the NVIDIA proprietary driver, downloaded from their website. However, after recent

Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-03-30 Thread Jason Filippou
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/30/2011 08:00 AM, Jason Filippou wrote: >> >> Hello list, >> >> I've been running my testing box's graphics through the NVIDIA >> proprietary driver, downloaded from their website. However, after >> recent updates, logging into my debian

Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-03-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/30/2011 08:00 AM, Jason Filippou wrote: Hello list, I've been running my testing box's graphics through the NVIDIA proprietary driver, downloaded from their website. However, after recent updates, logging into my debian box is only possible through text mode, no X server is started. Whenev

SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-03-30 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello list, I've been running my testing box's graphics through the NVIDIA proprietary driver, downloaded from their website. However, after recent updates, logging into my debian box is only possible through text mode, no X server is started. Whenever I try to install the downloaded NVIDIA driver

Re: Problem installing nvidia driver after upgrading from etch to lenny...

2009-08-05 Thread Andreas Ronnquist
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 02:27:26 +1000 Frank Gallacher wrote: > Greetings, > > I have just upgraded from "etch" to "lenny" on my PC (kernel 2.6.26-2-686) > I had installed the nvidia driver for NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT Graphics Card > which was working OK, > (Version 173.14.05 under etch) > > After the

Problem installing nvidia driver after upgrading from etch to lenny...

2009-08-05 Thread Frank Gallacher
Greetings, I have just upgraded from "etch" to "lenny" on my PC (kernel 2.6.26-2-686) I had installed the nvidia driver for NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT Graphics Card which was working OK, (Version 173.14.05 under etch) After the upgrade, gdm was crashing saying it couldn't find the driver; When I tried

Re: Error while installing nvidia driver

2009-04-20 Thread Norbert Zeh
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 07:25:52PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > On Sunday 19 April 2009, a dehqan wrote: > > In The name of God > > > > I'll be thankfull if you guide to fix this problem ; > > This is nvidia installer log : > > > > regards dehqan > > It seems to me you should link the compiler that

Re: Error while installing nvidia driver

2009-04-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-20 05:25 +0200, Greg Madden wrote: > On Sunday 19 April 2009, a dehqan wrote: >> In The name of God >> >> I'll be thankfull if you guide to fix this problem ; >> This is nvidia installer log : >> >> regards dehqan > > It seems to me you should link the compiler that matches your kernel

Re: Error while installing nvidia driver

2009-04-19 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 19 April 2009, a dehqan wrote: > In The name of God > > I'll be thankfull if you guide to fix this problem ; > This is nvidia installer log : > > regards dehqan It seems to me you should link the compiler that matches your kernel & headers. This would be: 'ln -sf /usr/bin/gcc-4.1 /usr

Re: Error while installing nvidia driver

2009-04-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-19 20:27 +0200, a dehqan wrote: > Thanks alot for you'r attention; > How can installer be run with gcc 4.1 (How should command be typed in > terminal). I don't know the exact name of the installer package. Use CC=gcc-4.1 [installer-command] with [installer-command] to be replaced

Re: Error while installing nvidia driver

2009-04-19 Thread a dehqan
In The Name Of God Thanks alot for you'r attention; How can installer be run with gcc 4.1 (How should command be typed in terminal). regards dehqan On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-04-19 12:47 +0200, a dehqan wrote: > >> I'll be thankfull if you guide to fix this

Re: Error while installing nvidia driver

2009-04-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-19 12:47 +0200, a dehqan wrote: > I'll be thankfull if you guide to fix this problem ; > This is nvidia installer log : > [...] > -> Performing CC sanity check with CC="cc". > -> Performing CC version check with CC="cc". > -> The CC version check failed: > >The compiler used to

Error while installing nvidia driver

2009-04-19 Thread a dehqan
In The name of God I'll be thankfull if you guide to fix this problem ; This is nvidia installer log : regards dehqan nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' creation time: Sun Apr 19 14:48:16 2009 option status: license pre-accepted: false update : fal

Re: Question about installing nvidia driver

2004-05-27 Thread Johnny
James, I have tried the following command suggested by Gary Parker. # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4349.run \ --kernel-include-path=/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4/include/ \ --kernel-install-path=/lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/video/ Are you actually running kernel 2.4.18.bf2.4 ?

Re: Question about installing nvidia driver

2004-05-26 Thread James Ng
Hi all, I have tried the following command suggested by Gary Parker. # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4349.run \ --kernel-include-path=/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4/include/ \ --kernel-install-path=/lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/video/ However, I still cannot install the driv

Re: Question about installing nvidia driver

2004-05-26 Thread B. L. Jilek
Hi James! On Tue, 25 May 2004, James Ng wrote: > Thank you for your reply. > > After I make do the following things, the nvidia-installer can run, but > I cannot still install the nvidia driver. > > cd /usr/src/linux > make include/version.h > > I do not know how to solve this problem, althoug

Re: Question about installing nvidia driver

2004-05-25 Thread Gary Parker
James Ng yahoo.com.hk> writes: > > Thank you for your reply. > > After I make do the following things, the nvidia-installer can run, but > I cannot still install the nvidia driver. > > cd /usr/src/linux > make include/version.h > > I do not know how to solve this problem, although someone say

Re: Question about installing nvidia driver

2004-05-24 Thread James Ng
Thank you for your reply. After I make do the following things, the nvidia-installer can run, but I cannot still install the nvidia driver. cd /usr/src/linux make include/version.h I do not know how to solve this problem, although someone say that the solution is in the README file... RROR: Una

Re: Question about installing nvidia driver

2004-05-23 Thread JohnOfArc
On Sun, 23 May 2004 20:13:54 +0200, LeVA wrote: > 2004. május 23. 18:19 dátummal Alexander Schmehl ezt írta: >> * LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040523 16:25]: >> > You must have the compiled(!) kernel sources, if you are using 2.6.*. >> >> Shouldn't kernel-headers be sufficient? >> > When I've compile

Re: Question about installing nvidia driver (no version for "struct_module")

2004-05-23 Thread Niels L. Ellegaard
LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I've compiled my 2.6.5 kernel, and installed the nvidia > drivers, it was ok. But after the make clean in /usr/src/linux > (symlink to linux-2.6.5) the installer didn't work. And that was > because it couldn't find the version file, which contains the kernel

Re: Question about installing nvidia driver

2004-05-23 Thread LeVA
2004. május 23. 18:19 dátummal Alexander Schmehl ezt írta: > * LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040523 16:25]: > > You must have the compiled(!) kernel sources, if you are using > > 2.6.*. > > Shouldn't kernel-headers be sufficient? > When I've compiled my 2.6.5 kernel, and installed the nvidia drivers, i

Re: Question about installing nvidia driver

2004-05-23 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040523 16:25]: > You must have the compiled(!) kernel sources, if you are using 2.6.*. Shouldn't kernel-headers be sufficient? Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Question about installing nvidia driver

2004-05-23 Thread LeVA
2004. május 24. 00:16 dátummal James Ng ezt írta: > Hi all, > > I have upgraded my kernel to 2.6.5, and try to install the > nvidia driver. I have tried to use the nvidia-installera and doing > extracting the driver and then make install, but both methods fail. > > Here is the log file when I

Question about installing nvidia driver

2004-05-23 Thread James Ng
Hi all, I have upgraded my kernel to 2.6.5, and try to install the nvidia driver. I have tried to use the nvidia-installera and doing extracting the driver and then make install, but both methods fail. Here is the log file when I install through nvidia-installer. nvidia-installer log file '/

Re: Problem in installing nvidia driver

2003-11-07 Thread James Ng Yuen Sum
Hi, I have read the reply of my questions. Thank you for everyone who help me. I have successfully installed the nvidia kernel. However, the nvidia kernel cannot function properly. I have followed the instruction to update the information in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Here is my log file This is

Re: Problem in installing nvidia driver

2003-11-06 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "James Ng Yuen Sum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 02:18 Subject: Problem in installing nvidia driver > Hi, > > I am trying to install the nvidia driver for my geforce 2 mx 400

Re: Problem in installing nvidia driver

2003-11-06 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello James Ng Yuen Sum (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am trying to install the nvidia driver for my geforce 2 mx 400 > display card. I have read the mailing lists here about the > installation problem others have encountered. But when I download it > and run, I cannot install it correctly. I h

Problem in installing nvidia driver

2003-11-06 Thread James Ng Yuen Sum
Hi, I am trying to install the nvidia driver for my geforce 2 mx 400 display card. I have read the mailing lists here about the installation problem others have encountered. But when I download it and run, I cannot install it correctly. I have added the path of my kernel-headers file, but it still

Re: Installing NVIDIA driver

2003-10-23 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 08:19:58PM +0200, Stefan Seifert wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to install the nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run > but when I run the setup there is an error: Yes, we know already...send once, wait for responses. -

Installing NVIDIA driver

2003-10-23 Thread Stefan Seifert
Hi, I'm trying to install the nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run but when I run the setup there is an error: ERROR: Unable to find the kernel header files for the currently running kernel. Please make sure you have installed the kernel header files for your kernel; on

Re: Installing nvidia driver ; Detecting ethernet card with new kernel

2003-09-17 Thread Shriram Ramanathan
Hi, > Let NVIDIA-Linux-x86-4496-pkg2.run compile a new driver for you. The installer package tries to download the kernel version from its own website but it fails. Is that what you mean ? If not, can you be more explicit ? Thanks, shriram. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Installing nvidia driver ; Detecting ethernet card with new kernel

2003-09-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 20:53, Shriram Ramanathan wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed woody. The installation discs installed kernel > 2.2.20-compact. I have been struggling with installing the nvidia Riva > TNT-2 driver. I downloaded the package > "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run" from the nvid

Installing nvidia driver ; Detecting ethernet card with new kernel

2003-09-16 Thread Shriram Ramanathan
Hi, I just installed woody. The installation discs installed kernel 2.2.20-compact. I have been struggling with installing the nvidia Riva TNT-2 driver. I downloaded the package "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run" from the nvidia site. I tried the following steps : 1) As per instructions, I