[64studio-devel] nvidia driver not found for my nvidia GeForce Go 6150

[Andy Gay]

I did all this, installing the nvidia driver with apt-get, set nvidia as my
device driver - everything seemed to install fine
but xorg says it cannot load it.

Is there something else I need to do?

Thanks.
Andy

On 3/14/07, Ian Cote <ianc at speakeasy.org> wrote:
>
> Hello Andy-
>
> The "nv" driver is the open-source free driver being developed
> independently from nvidia.  It's not bad, but doesn't do any 3D
> acceleration as far as I know.
>
> The "nvidia" driver relates to the binary-blob based driver distributed
> by nvidia.  It has all the bells and whistles.
>
> If you are just running on the one monitor, you can get the fancy nvidia
> driver directly from 64studio -
>
> Make sure you have :
>
> deb http://apt.64studio.com/64studio/64studio_1.2.0.apt/ 64studio main
>
> in your /etc/apt/sources.list (replace the 1.2.0 with 1.1.0 or 1.0.0
> depending on the version of 64 studio you are using)
>
> and then you should be able to run:
>
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
>
> That should install a the kernel modules and some common files for
> running the driver.
>
> Then you would change the "nv" in your xorg.cong to "nvidia" to launch
> the driver.  After that, it's setting up the config file for the higher
> resolution.  (Most likely if you find the line in the xorg.conf with:
>
> SubSection "Display"
>         <blah blah>
>         Modes   "800x600 (and other resolutions)"   <-put 1440x900 in for
> the
> first resolution in the quotes (you can leave the others, but you prolly
> won't use them often.)
>
> If you have other problems with the nvidia driver, you can check over at
> http://nvnews.net where the guys in the linux forum have seen about
> everything.  The developers of the linux driver post/read the forums as
> well.
>
> Hope this helps-
> ian
>
> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 21:45 -0500, Andy Gay wrote:
> > I would like to get rid of the vesa driver in my xorg.conf file that
> > drives my video.  It performs poorly and does not allow 1440X900
> > resolution my card is capable of,
> > even if I enter that resolution in the xorg.conf 24 bit default screen
> > resolution line.
> >
> > Substituted "nv" driver, but only works at 640X800 resolution.
> > Substituted "nvidia" for the driver, but on startx, the driver could
> > not be found.
> >
> > I did a "locate" command, and there is a bunch of nvidia stuff in the
> > installation.
> >
> > How do get xorg.conf to recognize the driver.  Does something need to
> > be installed.
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Andy
> >
> >
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