Hello Arron Kau (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I managed to get Debian installed on my desktop, but I can't get X to > run. I get a failed to find display device error. > [...] > 128 MB Nvidia Geforce Ti 4200 > > I did some research and it seemed the best way to get nvidia driver > compatability was to upgrade to testing/unstable and recompile the > kernel. That is about the worst way I can imagine - upgrading will help because the newer versions of XFree support your card, while XFree 4.1 in Debian 3.0 does not. Compiling a new kernel won't help at all. > Needless to say, I managed to make my machine completely > unusable after the first attempt at my own kernel compile. Is there > any other way for me to get X to run? There are three ways: 1. Use the VESA driver. It will work with all modern cards, however it probably misses some of the features your card offers. Has no hardware 3D acceleration 2. Upgrade to a newer version of XFree. XFree 4.3 should support your card with the NV driver. You can get some backported XFree packages for your system. Go to <http://www.apt-get.org> to find them. Add the correct line to your /etc/apt/sources.list. The package management will do the rest. Most of your system will stay stable this way. Note that the NV driver also does not offer you hardware 3D acceleration 3. Get the linux driver from <http://www.nvidia.com>. It will work with the XFree version in Debian 3.0. Do the following: apt-get install build-essential kernel-headers-$(uname -r) Next execute the downloaded driver archive: sh NVIDIA-something \ --kernel-include-path=/usr/src/kernel-headers-$(uname-r) best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 Registered Linux User #267976 http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
