[64studio-users] Nvidia Drivers

[Arthur]

Thanks everyone,

I was expecting to see a new kernel. This clarifies things for me. My 
last question is this: Should my xorg.conf read "nv" as it already did 
or should it be something different?


Daniel James wrote:
> Hi Arthur,
>
>> Part of the problem is that even though synaptic tells me that the 
>> nvidia kernel is installed, there are no nvidia kernel files in /boot 
>> for config, initrd.img or vmlinuz, therefore I don't see how adding 
>> to the grub menu list could help.
>
> A good point - what you're looking to boot is our regular 2.6.21 
> kernel, but with nVidia modules installed. Have you tried the method 
> shown in question 10 on this FAQ page?
>
> http://www.64studio.com/faq_user
>
>> do you know which drivers should be installed for this particular 
>> card, glx, glx-legacy, glx-legacy-71xx or glx-legacy-96xx?
>
> nVidia provides a list at:
>
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html
>
> The GeForce4 MX 440 would appear to require the 
> nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx and nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx packages to be 
> installed.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel
>