Re: Getting Xorg to use nvidia driver now that "devices" section gone in Sid

2008-06-27 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thursday 26 June 2008 11:26:53 pm David Bruce wrote: > Hello, > > I have installed both nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source(using > module-assistant for the latter to build and install the driver). In > the past, at this point I would just use "dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xorg" to select "nvidia

Re: Getting Xorg to use nvidia driver now that "devices" section gone in Sid

2008-06-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:26:53PM -0500, David Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo aptitude show nvidia-glx Note that you don't need root privileges to list information about packages. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Getting Xorg to use nvidia driver now that "devices" section gone in Sid

2008-06-27 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 June 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: > I have installed both nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source(using > module-assistant for the latter to build and install the driver). >  In the past, at this point I would just use "dpkg-reco

Re: Getting Xorg to use nvidia driver now that "devices" section gone in Sid

2008-06-27 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/26/2008 10:26 PM, David Bruce wrote: Hello, I have installed both nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source(using module-assistant for the latter to build and install the driver). In the past, at this point I would just use "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" to select "nvidia" instead of "nv". No

Re: Getting Xorg to use nvidia driver now that "devices" section gone in Sid

2008-06-27 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
You can still make a "Devices" section, and explicitly name the driver you want to use there. At least in Lenny you can, which should be close enough to sid to translate this to sid as well. Sjoerd Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Friday 27 June 2008 08:38:02 Nuno Magalhães wrote: Man Xorg Thierry

Re: Getting Xorg to use nvidia driver now that "devices" section gone in Sid

2008-06-26 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 27 June 2008 08:38:02 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > Man Xorg > > Thierry > > If you're gonna waste time with a pointless reply maybe man xorg.conf > will be better. > > Here's my section: > Section "Device" > Identifier "Device0" > Driver "nv" > # Driver "nvidia"

Re: Getting Xorg to use nvidia driver now that "devices" section gone in Sid

2008-06-26 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> Man Xorg > Thierry If you're gonna waste time with a pointless reply maybe man xorg.conf will be better. Here's my section: Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nv" # Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" EndSection Tailor yours to suit yo

Re: Getting Xorg to use nvidia driver now that "devices" section gone in Sid

2008-06-26 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 27 June 2008 05:26:53 David Bruce wrote: > Hello, > > I have installed both nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source(using > module-assistant for the latter to build and install the driver). In > the past, at this point I would just use "dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xorg" to select "nvidia" ins

Getting Xorg to use nvidia driver now that "devices" section gone in Sid

2008-06-26 Thread David Bruce
Hello, I have installed both nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source(using module-assistant for the latter to build and install the driver). In the past, at this point I would just use "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" to select "nvidia" instead of "nv". Now, it appears that the driver is supposed to