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

[Ian Cote]

That's weird..

Can you send me your /var/log/Xorg* log files? I'll take a look and see
what seems to be the issue.


On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 20:16 -0500, Andy Gay wrote:
> 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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