Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?
Hi, Rescue mode is not a must to do, opening a terminal and stopping the current display manager also works. It's a must to have the "build-essential" package installed and the kernel headers / sources, so that should be: apt-get install build-essential linux-source linux-headers Else the build / installation of the nvidia software will break :). Regards, Jeffrey On 05/21/2012 02:56 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 16/05/12 12:12, aditya menon wrote: Hello everyone, Can you give me an easy way to install drivers for this card *Nvidia GeForce GT520M*? I'm on a laptop. I've tried many things, including this command: aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r` nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glxfrom an answer I got on StackOverflow. Everything I do results in X failing to start. In fact I just re-installed X and now it refuses to start at all. So are there a set of commands I can use to simply install the driver? My primary need is to raise the resolution of the monitor... If binary it must be, you can try the nvidia installer [1], it also includes a utility to update your X configuration accordingly. Only drawback is that it will break (and you will have to re-install it) at each kernel update. Also you have to do the installation out of your graphical desktop environment, e.g. by booting in 'rescue mode'. Lorenzo. [1] http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/44867 Thanks! -- sincerely, aditya menon - http://www.forrst.me/adityamenon
Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?
On 16/05/12 12:12, aditya menon wrote: Hello everyone, Can you give me an easy way to install drivers for this card *Nvidia GeForce GT520M*? I'm on a laptop. I've tried many things, including this command: aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r` nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glxfrom an answer I got on StackOverflow. Everything I do results in X failing to start. In fact I just re-installed X and now it refuses to start at all. So are there a set of commands I can use to simply install the driver? My primary need is to raise the resolution of the monitor... If binary it must be, you can try the nvidia installer [1], it also includes a utility to update your X configuration accordingly. Only drawback is that it will break (and you will have to re-install it) at each kernel update. Also you have to do the installation out of your graphical desktop environment, e.g. by booting in 'rescue mode'. Lorenzo. [1] http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/44867 Thanks! -- sincerely, aditya menon - http://www.forrst.me/adityamenon -- 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/4fba3b65.7000...@gmail.com
Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?
On Sun, 20 May 2012 08:35:34 +0530, aditya wrote in message : > (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00@00:02:0 > (EE) No devices detected. > > Fatal server error: > no screens found ..you have no Section "Screen" in your xorg.conf. Fix that. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- 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/20120521002205.7a6c5...@celsius.lan
Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?
Hi Tom and everybody,
Really sorry, I'll make sure to never reply personally again. It's kind of
common sense, I should have resisted the temptation to just hit the reply
button on every mail... I'll send all mail to
debian-user@lists.debian.orgfrom now - that's the right thing right?
You can still track what I'm
saying, correct?
Yes, indeed, X does work once I rid the system of nvidia drivers, the
xorg.conf file and install something like vesa for instance. The main
problem right now is less about X not starting and more about the low
resolution (which I'm guessing is because there is no nVidia support).
You are right, I have Optimus on my laptop, and I tried installing
bumblebee to no success :( I'm attaching my X files again so everyone else
can try to see what the problem is, too...
Also, I have the *same* laptop make, lspci output, and probably even the
same X configuration and errors, as this guy:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1790201 - and what I want is a
better screen resolution, just like the OP.
I tried to implement the answers over there by messing with my X files, but
I keep breaking things. May I please have instructions, or Step-by-Step
links to instructions? Reply #8 to that thread sounds tantalizingly like a
solution but whatever I write into the x.conf file to implement it, ends up
in a syntax error...
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Tom wrote:
> Hey Aditya,
>
> You shouldn't write to people on mailing lists directly. It's bad form
> and more importantly prevents a possible answer from being archived for
> others to find. Besides, plenty of people on the list know plenty of
> things about X that I don't.
>
>
> I did try that wiki page - installing all those things step by step.
>>
>
> Ehm, I only mentioned Bumblebee because I believe your card comes with
> Nvidia Optimus. I haven't checked it yet, but it'll be necessary to get
> the best out of the card in any case.
>
> > I'm still having trouble with X starting up <..> attaching my X files
>
> In the meantime, as I said, it was enough to get rid of nvidia/nouveau
> and run X with the intel driver.
>
> So:
>
> * check "lspci", if you have both a VGA line and a "Display controller"
> line, the latter is probably Intel
> * if so, get rid of nvidia/nouveau (check with something like "dpkg -l
> '*nvidia*' | grep ^ii")
> * make sure you have the intel driver (xserver-xorg-video-intel), maybe
> install libva-intel-vaapi-driver too
> * for me libgl1-mesa-glx and libgl1-mesa-dri were needed too
> * finally, move your old xorg.conf out of the way and start X without
> one, it should figure it out by itself
>
> This worked for me. If it doesn't for you, please don't forget you can
> use Google just like anybody would have to. Only that vague error line
> ("nvidia x no devices detected") was enough to get you started.
>
> Luck!
> Tom
>
> --
> np: Vagon Brei - Praclarush Taonas
>
--
sincerely,
aditya menon
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Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?
On 2012-05-16 14:50 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2012 15:42:35 +0530, aditya wrote in message > : > >> Hello everyone, >> >> Can you give me an easy way to install drivers for this card *Nvidia >> GeForce GT520M*? > > ..is this the card that was considered mid-level in 2006, or the > 48 core card that was released as entry level in 2010? I googled. > > ..in the latter case, the nouveau driver might work. It won't very work well though, since there is no working free microcode for the card yet¹ (GeForce GT 520M belongs to the NVD9 family). And without that there's no acceleration. :-( Cheers, Sven ¹ http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallDRM#Firmware -- 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/87r4uknu9q@turtle.gmx.de
Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?
On Wed, 16 May 2012 15:42:35 +0530, aditya wrote in message : > Hello everyone, > > Can you give me an easy way to install drivers for this card *Nvidia > GeForce GT520M*? ..is this the card that was considered mid-level in 2006, or the 48 core card that was released as entry level in 2010? I googled. ..in the latter case, the nouveau driver might work. > I'm on a laptop. I've tried many things, including this command: > aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r` nvidia-kernel-dkms > nvidia-glx from an answer I got on StackOverflow. Everything I do > results in X failing to start. In fact I just re-installed X and now > it refuses to start at all. > > So are there a set of commands I can use to simply install the > driver? My primary need is to raise the resolution of the monitor... ..links to your dmesg and to your /var/log/Xorg.0.log, pls. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- 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/20120516145029.1733b...@celsius.lan
Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?
http://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/nvidia-graphics-drivers On 16/05/12 12:12, aditya menon wrote: Hello everyone, Can you give me an easy way to install drivers for this card *Nvidia GeForce GT520M*? I'm on a laptop. I've tried many things, including this command: aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r` nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glxfrom an answer I got on StackOverflow. Everything I do results in X failing to start. In fact I just re-installed X and now it refuses to start at all. So are there a set of commands I can use to simply install the driver? My primary need is to raise the resolution of the monitor... Thanks! -- sincerely, aditya menon - http://www.forrst.me/adityamenon -- 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/4fb382ed.30...@rezozer.net
Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?
Hey, Can you give me an easy way to install drivers for this card *Nvidia GeForce GT520M*? Everything I do results in X failing to start. Is your laptop by any chance crippled with Optimus weirdness? I'd never heard of it until recently, when I bumped into the exact same problem (sadly on the laptop of someone I finally convinced to give Linux a try). If so, either you're lucky and you can disable the Nvidia card from the BIOS. If you can't, there's quite some reading ahead of you. :) Check out Bumblebee (3.0, not older, and not some obsolete rename called Ironhide), it has a page on the Debian wiki [1]. In the meantime X started just fine after I removed everything nouveau/Nvidia (making X pick the Intel driver) and installed libgl1-mesa-glx and -dri (IIRC) for GLX. Luck, Tom [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee -- np: Vox Populi! - Herrvoragende -- 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/4fb388a4.4090...@virta.be
