On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:00:25PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > I have installed Debian Lenny on my HP G6062 laptop. Xserver works > reasonably using the vesa driver. I couldn't get it to work with the nv > driver. > > It seems to see the nvidia network controller as well. > > There is an nvidia 7000M graphics chip in the laptop. I assume that it could > do some 3D graphics processing. > > But if I would want to use this capability I would need to install the > proprietary nvidia drivers manually. > > I Googled this and found quite a few web pages on this. > > It seems that Nvidia have their own installer and guide on their own web site > for Linux users but Debian also has its own Debian Way of installing the > nvidia drivers. > > There also seems to be other individuals with web pages giving advice on this > subject. > > Left to my own devices I would likely choose this site to get instructions on > how to proceed here: > > http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers > > But this seems to be a fast moving subject and maybe this site is out of date > now. > > I would appreciate comments on which web sites provide the most up to date > and appropriate way of doing it. > > I will use those sites and ignore the other ones and install the drivers.
I updated mine last week. :) http://www.tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.html It works for me, and I often get emails from people saying it works for them. Sometimes I get emails with questions about things not working, which I then figure out and update the howto to deal with. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
