Problem with debconf preseed and nvidia
Hi all, i'm pretty new to this mailing list, and starting off with a question that's been bothering me for a few days now: Debconf does not seem to recognize my videocard automatically, so i tried configuring it with the standard debconf preseed file. Contents of this is as follows: xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/inputdevice/keyboard/model string pc105 xserver-xorgxserver-xorg/autodetect_monitor boolean true xserver-xorgxserver-xorg/autodetect_keyboardboolean true xserver-xorgxserver-xorg/autodetect_mouse boolean true xserver-xorgxserver-xorg/autodetect_video_card boolean false xserver-xorgxserver-xorg/config/device/driver select nvidia xserver-xorgxserver-xorg/config/device/identifier string nVidia Quadro FX 440 However, instead of recognizing the card as vesa it will set the driver string to apm. I suspect this is because nvidia-glx is not installed yet at the moment xserver-xorg gets configured, causing the choice nvidia to not be available. Is there a way to either force debconf to set driver to nvidia wether or not it exists, or to make sure nvidia-glx is installed before xserver-xorg is configured? Greetings, Sjors Robroek
Re: Problem with debconf preseed and nvidia
> On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:58:38 +0100, Sjors Robroek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Debconf does not seem to recognize my videocard automatically, so i > tried configuring it with the standard debconf preseed file. Contents of > this is as follows: > xserver-xorgxserver-xorg/autodetect_video_card boolean false > xserver-xorgxserver-xorg/config/device/driver select nvidia > xserver-xorgxserver-xorg/config/device/identifier string nVidia > Is there a way to either force debconf to set driver to nvidia wether or > not it exists, or to make sure nvidia-glx is installed before > xserver-xorg is configured? You can call fai-debconf and then $ROOTCMD dexconf at the end of installation (in a shell script). This should generate a proper xorg.conf file. -- regards Thomas
Re: Problem with debconf preseed and nvidia
Thomas Lange wrote: On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:58:38 +0100, Sjors Robroek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Debconf does not seem to recognize my videocard automatically, so i > tried configuring it with the standard debconf preseed file. Contents of > this is as follows: > xserver-xorgxserver-xorg/autodetect_video_card boolean false > xserver-xorgxserver-xorg/config/device/driver select nvidia > xserver-xorgxserver-xorg/config/device/identifier string nVidia > Is there a way to either force debconf to set driver to nvidia wether or > not it exists, or to make sure nvidia-glx is installed before > xserver-xorg is configured? You can call fai-debconf and then $ROOTCMD dexconf at the end of installation (in a shell script). This should generate a proper xorg.conf file. Cheers, that did it :) I'm hardly experienced with FAI at all, but i'm planning on using it to replace our current (rsync based) installation system, and this far i'm liking it.
