On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:51:20PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the regular > bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the openchrome > driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play games, so it's > mostly for text, web, and an occasional video file. > > What would be the least expensive card for my needs?
I bought a GeForce 6200. So far it's working well for me and solved the bus overload problem I was having. However I do have a couple of questions. I installed (with aptitude) nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-686 which is supposed to give me the nVidea driver binaries. X aborted because it could not find the nvidia module. The 'nv' driver works fine. 'dpkg -L nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-686' shows what got installed was: /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/nvidia/nvidia.ko The 'nv' driver is in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so. Does xorg need to be told about the different path? Is there some command I need to run to tell the kernel about the nvidia driver? What's the difference between '.ko' and '.so'? As I said, things are working fine it's just that I'm curious as to why the nvidia driver was not found. -- "The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models." -- Zig Zigler Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101003180050.ga6...@niof.net