On Thursday 20 January 2005 02:42, Brian R Drell wrote: > Are you using the installer from nVidia's website? If so, you need to > use the version from the apt repository. It's in the non-free testing > repository. > > I just did "apt-get install nvidia-*". I use a custom kernel, so I went > to my kernel source directory and did a "make-kpkg modules_image", then > installed the .deb file that it made in the /usr/src directory. This > should install the correct modules > to /lib/modules/<your-kernel-version>. > > Now, I had a problem where modprobe wouldn't find the nvidia module. > So, make sure you're running the correct kernel, and do a > "dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-glx" and this should fix the problem. > > I used this howto to solve my issues: > http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/ > > Hope this helps. > > Brian [...]
Hi Brian, Thank you for this, i did try to use the installer from Nvidia's website...it didn't work, tried you suggestion/s and i the i am now happy :), the module is not working beautifully. Once again, thanks for your help. Ciao Jono
