Re: Nvidia 7900GO

[Douglas Allan Tutty]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:57:05AM +0100, debian wrote:
> does anybody knows what drivers i have to use for my laptop (dell xps) ?
> videocard is nvidia 7900 go but nvidia does only have drivers for
> windows.

First, get xorg working with nv so that you know everything else works.

Install the nvidia-glx, and other nvidia- packages.

Run nvidia-config which alters your xorg.conf to use the nvidia drivers
and ensures that the modules are loaded.

If you are using a stock debian kernel, there's not reason to compile
the modules.  It has already been done for you in the matching nvidia-kernel
package.

There's been lots of discussion on the lists for this.  The earlier
messages were from before the -kernel packages were available in Etch.

Good luck.

Doug.


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Re: Nvidia 7900GO

[Clive Menzies]

On (31/01/07 09:57), debian wrote:
> does anybody knows what drivers i have to use for my laptop (dell xps) ?
> videocard is nvidia 7900 go but nvidia does only have drivers for
> windows.

This has been addressed several times in the archives but here it is
again:

On (26/09/06 11:46), Wackojacko wrote:
> I run nvidia graphics drivers on my AMD64 3200+, in both 64 bit and 32
> bit sid, so they definitely work.
>
> Here's what I do.
>
> ~apt-get install module-assistant nvidia-kernel-source
> ~m-a prepare (sudo or root)
> ~m-a a-i nvidia (sudo or root)
> ~dpkg -i /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-moduleX.deb (sudo or root)
> ~apt-get install nvidia-glx (sudo or root)
>
> Restart X.

It works for me... every time :)

Regards

Clive

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Nvidia 7900GO

[debian]

hello,

does anybody knows what drivers i have to use for my laptop (dell xps) ?
videocard is nvidia 7900 go but nvidia does only have drivers for
windows.

thnx
Ph.




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