Re: NVIDIA drivers issue: Bug that keeps presenting on kernel 6.1.0-21

Daniel Rodriguez writes: > The solution of the post to this issue is to update the kernel from > 6.1.0-13 -> 6.1.0.18; however, my kernel is a later version: > 6.1.0-21-amd64, so I am stuck for solving this issue. Do you have any > idea about what may be happening and/or how to solve it? I wonde

Re: NVIDIA drivers and virtual console problem

On 09/15/2018 10:28 AM, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: //"Есть два великих грехов в мире... ..грех невежества, грех от глупости.// So stupidity is the mode of ignorance. As the Sorting Hat once said, "I know what to do with YOU!" ...and off you go into my junk folder. :) Ric -- My father, Victor Mo

Re: NVIDIA drivers and virtual console problem

//here are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.// So stupidity is the mode of ignorance. 15.09.2018, 17:20, "Ric Moore" : > On 09/14/2018 07:54 AM, Marco Righi wrote: >>  Hello, >>  the NVIDIA drivers (384 from Debian and 390 repositories from the nvidia

Re: NVIDIA drivers and virtual console problem

//"Есть два великих грехов в мире... ..грех невежества, грех от глупости.// So stupidity is the mode of ignorance. 15.09.2018, 17:20, "Ric Moore" : > On 09/14/2018 07:54 AM, Marco Righi wrote: >>  Hello, >>  the NVIDIA drivers (384 from Debian and 390 repositories from the nvidia >> site) do not

Re: NVIDIA drivers and virtual console problem

On 09/14/2018 07:54 AM, Marco Righi wrote: Hello, the NVIDIA drivers (384 from Debian and 390 repositories from the nvidia site) do not allow me to have "virtual consoles" (to be clear, those that are activated with Ctrl-Alt-F1 .. F6). By installing Nouveau the problem disappears, with the two

Re: Nvidia drivers

Thanks for being a good guy and following up; I was looking into this and this report was keeping me from apt-get dist-upgrade this evening, so I know I'm OK now... Silent thanks to all that have faffed with getting this sorted in the last week -- cheers! On 07/09/2018 02:17 PM, Matthew Crew

Re: Nvidia drivers

On 7/9/18 5:55 AM, Matthew Crews wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 09:55:45AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 08:03:22PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: >>> This requires a workaround, a kernel parameter at boot. >>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="slab_common.usercopy_fallback=

Re: Nvidia drivers

On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 09:55:45AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 08:03:22PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: >> This requires a workaround, a kernel parameter at boot. >> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="slab_common.usercopy_fallback=y" >> Edit the config file like this, >>

Re: Nvidia drivers

On Sat, 07 Jul 2018 11:47:59 +0200 Francisco Mariano-Neto wrote: Hello Francisco, >maintainers) that the 390.67-2 solved this problem. Since that's the >version that is in sid, that explains why sid doesn't have this issue. That version arrived as the fix. Prior to that, sid & testing shared

Re: Nvidia drivers

Hey all, On Fri, 2018-07-06 at 11:37 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > nVidia have made changes to the driver that negate the effects of a > change in the kernel. > > So, it appears to be 'six of one, half a dozen of the other'. That > said, maybe nVidia should have kept a closer eye on kernel chan

Re: Nvidia drivers

On Fri, 06 Jul 2018 16:10:40 +0200 floris wrote: Hello floris, >and there is a new bug: >https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903121 >So be careful if you use the nvidia module. Thanks for the warning. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)r

Re: Nvidia drivers

On Fri, 06 Jul 2018 16:06:19 +0200 floris wrote: Hello floris, >They have found and reported this bug multiple times: > >see bug numbers: 901919, 901932, 901990, 902248, 902661, 902773, >902868, 902891 Fair enough. As I was pointed to the initial report quite quickly, I didn't search for other

Re: Nvidia drivers

Matthew Crews schreef op 2018-07-06 13:55: On 07/06/2018 01:55 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: Actually, as of version 390.67-2, that's no longer needed. Quoting [1]: nvidia-graphics-drivers (390.67-2) unstable; urgency=high * Add kmem_cache_create_usercopy.patch from Red Hat, fixing "Bad

Re: Nvidia drivers

Brad Rogers schreef op 2018-07-06 12:37: It's strange also that nobody using sid /seems/ to have been affected by the problem. Or maybe they were, knew the workaround and forgot to report the bug. Who knows? They have found and reported this bug multiple times: see bug numbers: 90191

Re: Nvidia drivers

On 07/06/2018 01:55 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > Actually, as of version 390.67-2, that's no longer needed. Quoting [1]: > > nvidia-graphics-drivers (390.67-2) unstable; urgency=high > > * Add kmem_cache_create_usercopy.patch from Red Hat, fixing "Bad or > missing > use

Re: Nvidia drivers

On Fri, 06 Jul 2018 12:09:59 +0200 Francisco M Neto wrote: Hello Francisco, >assume it was something that was changed in the kernel since it was the >kernel upgrade that "broke" the driver, but it might also have been >something in the driver that was addressed in the kernel. nVidia have made

Re: Nvidia drivers

Thanks for the answer! First, checking installed kernel headers was the first thing I tried when dkms failed. I'll try using the workaround when I get home tonight and see how it goes. I try not to use too much stuff from sid, especially on essential systems like this. Ho

Re: Nvidia drivers

On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 08:03:22PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: On 7/5/18 5:42 PM, Francisco Mariano-Neto wrote: Hey all, I'm running kernel 4.15 with nvidia-driver 390.48-3 with no problems. However, recently my kernel was automatically upgraded to 4.16 and it broke the nvidia driver.

Re: Nvidia drivers

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018, 5:57 AM Matthew Crews wrote: > On 07/05/2018 06:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > > On 7/5/18 5:42 PM, Francisco Mariano-Neto wrote: > >> Hey all, > >> > >> I'm running kernel 4.15 with nvidia-driver 390.48-3 with no > >> problems. However, recently my kernel was automatically

Re: Nvidia drivers

On 07/05/2018 06:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > On 7/5/18 5:42 PM, Francisco Mariano-Neto wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I'm running kernel 4.15 with nvidia-driver 390.48-3 with no >> problems. However, recently my kernel was automatically upgraded to 4.16 >> and it broke the nvidia driver. >> >>

Re: Nvidia drivers

Sorry, I failed to read your whole message. Make sure you have installed the the kbuild and headers for your current running kernel. Then consider upgrading your nvidia driver to the latest version (in sid, still, I believe). If you do the latter, be sure and use the kernel parameter I show

Re: Nvidia drivers

On 7/5/18 5:42 PM, Francisco Mariano-Neto wrote: Hey all, I'm running kernel 4.15 with nvidia-driver 390.48-3 with no problems. However, recently my kernel was automatically upgraded to 4.16 and it broke the nvidia driver. Running 'dkms autoinstall --all' does not help, it compl

Re: Nvidia drivers

You sure you have the 4.16 headers installed and not the 4.15 headers? Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com), Swiss-based encrypted email. Original Message On Jul 5, 2018, 15:42, Francisco Mariano-Neto wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm running kernel 4.15 with nvidia-driver 39

RE: Nvidia drivers problem Geforce 570

itor i am using i want to run at 2560x1440 but is only currently using 1600x1200 Does anyone have a working xorg.conf with an nvidia card that i could test with please? And also does anyone know if the xorg.conf is configured correctly to use the GLX driver then does Vesa get disabled by default o

Re: Nvidia drivers problem Geforce 570

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:20 PM, jeremy jozwik wrote: > sorry for not being so clear. i dont have the machine in front of me > at the moment to type out the exact error but i installed the driver > ones. the install was building the man triggers and i tossed up an > error for the nvidia driver. sin

Re: Nvidia drivers problem Geforce 570

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Nathan D'elboux wrote: >> i have my gtx 580 working "ok" with the nvidia linux driver. sadly it >> throws an install error for every install since i ran the nvidia >> driver. i dont have the machine in front of me right now to list the >> specific error. >> >> but t

RE: Nvidia drivers problem Geforce 570

t my xorg.conf config later to compare to someone else's if thats possible. All i want is to take advantage of my screen real estate in a clear / crisp way :) > Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 17:50:17 -0700 > Subject: Re: Nvidia drivers problem Geforce 570 > From: jerjoz.for...@gmail.c

Re: Nvidia drivers problem Geforce 570

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Nathan D'elboux wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I wanted to know has anyone had any issues getting nvidia drivers working > for a Geforce 5xx series card under Debian 6 squeeze? > > I'm running a Geforce 570 running a Dell 27" IPS screen that has a res of > 2560 x 1440

RE: Nvidia drivers problem Geforce 570, Have not used this model GPU, sorry.

Sorry was suppose to reply all :) RE: Nvidia drivers problem Geforce 570, Have not used this model GPU, sorry. What model are you using? I also have a 5xxx series and a 8800GTX and 8800GT to swap out and see, i just haven't tried that yet Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 20:19:49 -0400 From: sa

Re: Nvidia drivers problem Geforce 570, Have not used this model GPU, sorry.

On 06/07/2012 08:11 PM, Nathan D'elboux wrote: Hello everyone! I wanted to know has anyone had any issues getting nvidia drivers working for a Geforce 5xx series card under Debian 6 squeeze? I'm running a Geforce 570 running a Dell 27" IPS screen that has a res of 2560 x 1440, the res isn't

Re: Nvidia drivers

Hi, Found the problem, forgotten to install the nvidia-kernel-dkms package. Very happy all work great now and all of the CUDA stuff I installed also works! Thanks for your comments, Jim On 12/09/11 14:05, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > Having a terrible time trying to get nvidia drivers working. I

Re: Nvidia drivers

Have you tried to neutralized the wrong nvidia module by renaming it. On 12/09/11 16:30, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, problem is that I can't get x to start now and need some help, any ideas? On Sep 12, 2011 1:58 PM, "Jerome BENOIT" mailto:g62993...@rezozer.net>> wrote: > Hello List: > > have yo

Re: Nvidia drivers

Hi, problem is that I can't get x to start now and need some help, any ideas? On Sep 12, 2011 1:58 PM, "Jerome BENOIT" wrote: > Hello List: > > have your tried the Debian instead: > > http://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/nvidia-graphics-drivers > http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/nvidia-cuda-d

Re: Nvidia drivers

Hello List: have your tried the Debian instead: http://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/nvidia-graphics-drivers http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/nvidia-cuda-dev hth, Jerome On 12/09/11 15:05, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, Having a terrible time trying to get nvidia drivers working. I had them

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze [SOLVED]

Aidan Gauland writes: > I just upgraded my video card (from a 9400 GT to a GT 430), and when I > booted my system, X failed to start. When seeing that the Nvidia > drivers in sid are the same version as those direct from Nvidia's > website, I tried upgrading the nvidia driver packages on my syste

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:58:42 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> You better try with nvidia own drivers to avoid messing with >> dependencies. > > Yes, I think I'll go that route. Bit of a problem, though: the Nvidia > installer warns me that > > "The compiler used to compile

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

On Saturday 25 June 2011 09:52:08 pm lee wrote: > > "The compiler used to compile the kernel (gcc 4.3) does not exactly > > match the current compiler (gcc 4.4). The Linux 2.6 kernel module > > loader rejects kernel modules built with a version of gcc that does not > > exactly match that of

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

Aidan Gauland writes: > Camaleón writes: > >> You better try with nvidia own drivers to avoid messing with >> dependencies. > > Yes, I think I'll go that route. Bit of a problem, though: the Nvidia > installer warns me that If you ask in #debian on irc.debian.org, you'll be told that the insta

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

Camaleón writes: > You better try with nvidia own drivers to avoid messing with > dependencies. Yes, I think I'll go that route. Bit of a problem, though: the Nvidia installer warns me that "The compiler used to compile the kernel (gcc 4.3) does not exactly match the current compiler (gcc 4.4

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

Aidan Gauland writes: > What do I need to do to use the Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze? Perhaps you're missing some packages? , | lee@yun:~/tmp/naming$ dpkg --get-selections |grep -i nvidia | libgl1-nvidia-alternatives install | libgl1-nvidia-glx

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

> Yes, I had wondered myself if there aren't incompatibilities, even if > the packages are not marked as conflicting. I think it might be easier > to go the non-Debian, Nvidia way (sadly). On Debian, how can I undo > whatever the Nvidia installer does? I'd feel more comfortable running > it, kn

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

On 25/06/11 20:33, Aidan Gauland wrote: > Hi, > > I just upgraded my video card (from a 9400 GT to a GT 430), and when I > booted my system, X failed to start. Seeing that the version of the > Nvidia drivers in sid were the same as those direct from Nvidia's > website, I tried upgrading the drive

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

"Hans-J. Ullrich" writes: > Hi Aidan! > Did you install the nvidia-glx package? Yes, that was pulled in by nvidia-kernel-dkms (directly or indirectly). > A good way to see, what is happening, is to move /etc/init.d/kdm out of the > way, Doing so, it will not start at boot. > > After boot, you

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:46:26 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote: > I just upgraded my video card (from a 9400 GT to a GT 430), and when I > booted my system, X failed to start. Weird, unless the new card is not suported by the installed driver. > When seeing that the Nvidia drivers in sid are the same

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

> So I then tried purging (and downgrading back to squeeze any packages > that were upgraded as dependencies of) the nvidia packages and > installing nvidia-kernel-dkms (as directed by > ). Still no joy; > the same error. > > What do I need

Re: Nvidia drivers

On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:29:26 -0400 (EDT), James Allsopp wrote: > > ... > Not really sure how I should move from here. I want the proprietary > nvidia drivers as I want to have compiz and use CUDA, so if someone can > point me in the direction of the best way to achieve this I would be > very grate

Re: Nvidia drivers

Do you have nvidia-glx installed? That's what I think you need. Install nouveau (that should clean out all the Debian nvidia stuff) then clean out the nvidia stuff that you installed privately, then install nvidia-glx. On 04/18/2011 11:28 AM, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, I've recently after Sq

Re: Nvidia drivers

Hi, I've recently after Squeeze went stable, changed my sources.list from having the keyword testing to stable. I've tried apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-nvidia-glx apt-get install --reinstall nvidia-kernel-dkms which reinstalled those files but I think that there may be a linking problem in

Re: Nvidia drivers

On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, James Allsopp wrote: On 18/04/11 13:56, Erwan David wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 01:41:46PM CEST, James Allsopp said: Hi, My source.list has the following; deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stab

Re: Nvidia drivers

On Monday 18 April 2011 09:38:52 James Allsopp wrote: > Done, that and still get the same error; full output is > Hawaiian:/home/ja# aptitude install nvidia-kernel-dkms > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

Re: Nvidia drivers

Done, that and still get the same error; full output is Hawaiian:/home/ja# aptitude install nvidia-kernel-dkms No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.

Re: Nvidia drivers

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 01:41:46PM CEST, James Allsopp said: > Hi, > My source.list has the following; > > deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib > deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates

Re: Nvidia drivers

On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:41:46 +0100 James Allsopp wrote: Hello James, > but I'm not sure what you mean about reloading? Any time you update your sources you need to reload the package list, to ensure you've got the most up to date list of packages. Using aptitude, that's a # aptitude update S

Re: Nvidia drivers

Hi, My source.list has the following; deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates mai

Re: Nvidia drivers

On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:50:51 +0100 James Allsopp wrote: Hello James, > I get this happening > Hawaiian:/home/ja# aptitude install nvidia-kernel-dkms > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. Looks as though you haven't got "non-free" included. Add that, reload and try again. --

Re: Nvidia drivers

I get this happening Hawaiian:/home/ja# aptitude install nvidia-kernel-dkms No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. so not really sure where to go from here. Jim On 18/04/11 11:43, Erwan David wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:29:26PM CEST, James Allsopp > said: >> Hi, >> Not rea

Re: Nvidia drivers

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:29:26PM CEST, James Allsopp said: > Hi, > Not really sure how I should move from here. I want the proprietary > nvidia drivers as I want to have compiz and use CUDA, so if someone can > point me in the direction of the best way to achieve this I would be > very grateful

Re: Nvidia drivers

Hi, Not really sure how I should move from here. I want the proprietary nvidia drivers as I want to have compiz and use CUDA, so if someone can point me in the direction of the best way to achieve this I would be very grateful. Also I find the whole kernel situation in Debian quite confusing as op

Re: Nvidia drivers

On Friday 15 April 2011 09:41:19 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > >Version mismatch detected between the NVIDIA libGL.so > >and libGLcore.so shared libraries (libGL.so version: > >190.53; libGLcore.so version: 195.36.31). > >Please try reinstalling the NVIDIA driver. > > > >Any

Re: Nvidia drivers

In , James Allsopp wrote: >Version mismatch detected between the NVIDIA libGL.so >and libGLcore.so shared libraries (libGL.so version: >190.53; libGLcore.so version: 195.36.31). >Please try reinstalling the NVIDIA driver. > >Any suggestions? Make sure the version of nvidia-glx, libgl1-nvidia-glx,

Re: nvidia drivers on debian

On 13 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But I think that Debian might be a better try now since the standard > graphics driver is already so good. The nv driver does no 3D acceleration. You could try nouveau [1] which has excellent 2D acceleration and limited 3D acceleration. Footnotes: [1]

Re: nvidia drivers on debian

Bernd Kloss wrote: What says dpkg -l | grep nvidia lsmod | grep nvidia What ist the brand/model of your Monitor? HorizSync28-51 VertRefresh43-60 fits your monitor? Greetings Bernd I think I have resolved my problem. At the time of the installatio

Re: nvidia drivers on debian

Am Mittwoch, 12. März 2008 09:35 schrieben Sie: > Section "Device" > Identifier"nVidia Corporation NV42 [Geforce 6800 XT]" > Driver"nvidia" > BusID"PCI:1:0:0" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier"Generic Monitor" > Option"DPMS" > H

Re: nvidia drivers on debian

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 09:35:24AM +0100, Jan Brosius wrote: > these are the contents of file /etc/X11/xorg.conf [...] > Section "Monitor" >Identifier"Generic Monitor" >Option"DPMS" >HorizSync28-51 >VertRefresh43-60 Are these correct according to you monitor

Re: nvidia drivers on debian

Bernd Kloss wrote: aptitude? ii nvidia-glx 1.0.8776-4 NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver ii nvidia-kernel-2.6-k7 1.0.8776+6etch2 NVIDIA binary kernel module for 2.6 series compiled for ii nvidia-kernel-2.6.18 1.0.8776+6etch2 NVIDIA binary kernel module for Lin

Re: nvidia drivers on debian

On Tuesday 11 March 2008 09:59:25 pm Jan Brosius wrote: > I have installed debian 4.0 r3 on my desktop. > I would like to install the nvidia driver the debian way. This has been asked so many times here and other places that it's really not worth asking people again when Google gives you the inst

Re: nvidia drivers on debian

Am Mittwoch, 12. März 2008 05:59 schrieb Jan Brosius: > Hello, > > I have installed debian 4.0 r3 on my desktop. > I would like to install the nvidia driver the debian way. Is there any > easy way > (as it is in fedora) to do this. > > Also what do I have to do if my xserver crashes. Fedora automat

Re: nvidia drivers on debian

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 05:59:25AM +0100, Jan Brosius wrote: > Hello, > > I have installed debian 4.0 r3 on my desktop. > I would like to install the nvidia driver the debian way. Is there any easy > way > (as it is in fedora) to do this. As easy as it can be: aptitude install nvidia-glx Regard

Re: nVidia drivers

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: So to state the obvious: 1. download the 7167 driver. 2. If you have < 2.6.16 just run NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7167-pkg1.run 3. If you have >= 2.6.16 you need to patch the latter with NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-8178-1444349.diff.txt 4. Make sure you have the right kernel headers for y

Re: nVidia drivers

Chris Lale wrote: Wulfy wrote: I've been trying for ages to install the drivers for my nVidia card. [1] I tried nvidia's proprietary driver and had the same problem with my AGP card. Adding the option "NvAGP" "1" to /etc/X11/xorg.conf (I am using Etch) solved the problem. If you are usi

Re: nVidia drivers

Wulfy wrote: I've been trying for ages to install the drivers for my nVidia card. [1] I tried the debs in Sarge. They wanted to install the 2.4.27 kernel. I'm using the 2.6.8. [2] I tried the installer from nVidia, one of the 8000 series drivers. it worked! Everything was installed. W

Re: nVidia drivers

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I have exactly the same card. And neither the 8* series nor 7174 will work! But download 7167 and that one *will* load! Try it! I run a two seater Debian: 2 monitors/keyboards/mice. One monitor on an AGP TNT2 and the other on a PCI MX-440. The TNT2 is superior in everyt

Re: nVidia drivers

Wulfy wrote: I've been trying for ages to install the drivers for my nVidia card. [1] I tried the debs in Sarge. They wanted to install the 2.4.27 kernel. I'm using the 2.6.8. [2] I tried the installer from nVidia, one of the 8000 series drivers. it worked! Everything was installed. Wh

Re: nVidia drivers

Florian Kulzer wrote: I would also hesitate to install the Etch package on a Sarge system, assuming that apt lets you do it in the first place. I agree that the "kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-686" package seems to be your best bet, combined with the --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-

Re: nVidia drivers

Wulfy wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] If you are using a stock Debian kernel (and your output of "uname -a" seems to suggest that you do), then you need to install the appropriate kernel-headers package. (If you did not compile the kernel yourself then the kernel source directory will not

Re: nVidia drivers

Florian Kulzer wrote: Are you using a self-compiled kernel? If yes, then it might be enough to create a symlink /usr/src/linux which points to the kernel-source-2.6.8 directory. (At least that was sufficient to get it working for me.) If you are using a stock Debian kernel (and your output of "u

Re: nVidia drivers

Wulfy wrote: I've been trying for ages to install the drivers for my nVidia card. [1] I tried the debs in Sarge. They wanted to install the 2.4.27 kernel. I'm using the 2.6.8. [2] I tried the installer from nVidia, one of the 8000 series drivers. it worked! Everything was installed. When X

Re: nvidia drivers

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is bug #346246: ... beside the error message beeing *crystal* clear, we don't support closed source binary drivers closing I know it's crystal, it's all about compiling for rivafb support! And don't tell me that i can make my custom kernel! This rivafb support o

Re: nvidia drivers and 2.6.13.4

Finally, I found the problem, I removed /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx script. I removed nvidia-glx but did not purge it.On 11/16/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello,I have the same problem. I managed to fix it when i recompiled my kernel withgcc 4, and then everything goes fine.Hope th

Re: nvidia drivers and 2.6.13.4

It was compiled with gcc-4.0.2 because gcc -v says so altough gcc-3.3 is also installed. But I noticed something else, in the boot log I can see a line something like this: Removing Nvidia TLS Links ... Done What does it mean?On 11/16/05, Andras Lorincz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And how do I do

Re: nvidia drivers and 2.6.13.4

And how do I do that? Simply uninstalling the other versions of gcc, or is it a way to specify which version of gcc to use?On 11/16/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello,I have the same problem. I managed to fix it when i recompiled my kernel withgcc 4, and then everything goes fi

Re: nvidia drivers and 2.6.13.4

Hello, I have the same problem. I managed to fix it when i recompiled my kernel with gcc 4, and then everything goes fine. Hope this will help > I've installed the driver from nvidia.com version > 1.0-7676, the device files nvidia0 and nvidiactl are created but after > resta

Re: nvidia drivers and 2.6.13.4

I've installed the driver from nvidia.com version 1.0-7676, the device files nvidia0 and nvidiactl are created but after restart X stiil doesn't start. When I try to start kdm a blank screen is what I get and if press enter it returns to console. In Xorg.log.0 the last line tells me about initializ

Re: nvidia drivers and 2.6.13.4

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 09:08:36AM +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using testing and installed the nvidia drivers following the > instructions on > http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html. But after > restart X won't start, but if I reinstall the nvidia modules p

Re: Well documented [was Re: nvidia drivers]

> On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 00:17, Tom Allison wrote: > >> I was able to install by doing: >> apt-get kernel-headers... >> and then running the NVIDIA package they provide on their website. >> >> I don't know, but the kernel-source may be necessary, but I doubt it. I >> have it installed, that's why

Re: Well documented [was Re: nvidia drivers]

Guest, Simon wrote: > ... > It's all well documented what you have to do. Once you realise that the best > documentation for knowing how to use packages in Debian is often to be found > in /usr/share/doc/, everything becomes straightforward. > (Thanks to those fine chaps, the Debian developers

Well documented [was Re: nvidia drivers]

On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 00:17, Tom Allison wrote: > I was able to install by doing: > apt-get kernel-headers... > and then running the NVIDIA package they provide on their website. > > I don't know, but the kernel-source may be necessary, but I doubt it. I > have it installed, that's why I mention

Re: nvidia drivers

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:23:45 -0400, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gregory Seidman wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 06:13:22AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > > } OK, I tried to install the nvidia kernel headers and such with a stock > > } debian kernel. I didn't see any errors through any

Re: nvidia drivers

> Gregory Seidman wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 06:13:22AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > > } OK, I tried to install the nvidia kernel headers and such with a stock > > } debian kernel. I didn't see any errors through any of the steps, > > } however I keep getting failure when I now start X. II

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 23 August 2004 06:13 am, Tom Allison wrote: OK, I tried to install the nvidia kernel headers and such with a stock debian kernel. I didn't see any errors through any of the steps, however I keep getting failure when I now start X. IIRC the packages where nvidia-

Re: nvidia drivers

Gregory Seidman wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 06:13:22AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: } OK, I tried to install the nvidia kernel headers and such with a stock } debian kernel. I didn't see any errors through any of the steps, } however I keep getting failure when I now start X. IIRC the packages

Re: nvidia drivers

On Monday 23 August 2004 06:13 am, Tom Allison wrote: > OK, I tried to install the nvidia kernel headers and such with a stock > debian kernel. I didn't see any errors through any of the steps, > however I keep getting failure when I now start X. IIRC the packages > where nvidia-kernel and variou

Re: nvidia drivers

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 06:13:22AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: } OK, I tried to install the nvidia kernel headers and such with a stock } debian kernel. I didn't see any errors through any of the steps, } however I keep getting failure when I now start X. IIRC the packages } where nvidia-kernel

Re: nvidia drivers

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 06:13:22 -0400, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I tried to install the nvidia kernel headers and such with a stock > debian kernel. I didn't see any errors through any of the steps, > however I keep getting failure when I now start X. IIRC the packages > where nv

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel headers

Hi, Still stuck with getting the nvidia driver loaded. I have the old video card re-installed-which is how I could use debian gui. SuSE and Knoppix both recognized this card without a hitch. So why can't I get it to work in Debian? --- John Yurcik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am still getting the

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel headers

I am still getting the error message about not being able to load nvidia.o from the nvidia driver installer. I did make depends as was suggested here-it didn't change the error message. In trying to do make menuconfig in /usr/src/kernel-sources... the following is the terminal response: deblnx:/us

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel headers

John Yurcik wrote: 1. Download and install the kernel-source package that corresponds to the kernel version you're running. 2. Unbzip the bzip file that appears in /usr/src (something like kernel-source-2.4.whatever.tar.bz2). 3. make a symbolic link to the resulting directory called /usr/src/linu

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel headers

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:45, John Yurcik wrote: > ...etc... > I did 1-4 above. At 'make menu config the terminal > responded with 'no target specified' I tried adding > the directory with the kernel-sources to the command > without without success. Do I really have to compile > the kernel to get th

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel headers

1. Download and install the kernel-source package that corresponds to the kernel version you're running. 2. Unbzip the bzip file that appears in /usr/src (something like kernel-source-2.4.whatever.tar.bz2). 3. make a symbolic link to the resulting directory called /usr/src/linux (eg ln -s /usr/s

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--- John Yurcik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for the answers.I did look at the read me > at > nvidia and it didn't illuminate what would solve > this. > (I upgraded my video card and then had Xserver > failure > in debian.) Anyway here is the results of uname -a & > my /usr/src/. > >[EM

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