What package(s) are needed to install nvidia support ?

[James Gregory]

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 14:37 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: 
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:20:05PM -0500, Scott Dier wrote:
> 
> > You'll need to install the kernel-headers files and then get the
> > nvidia-kernel-common and nvidia-driver source packages from debian
> > unstable.  Then, after building them install the module source package and
> > build it.
> 
> If you use the stock kernel, you don't need to build anything; just make
> sure that the 'restricted' component is in your sources.list, and apt-get
> install linux-restricted-modules and nvidia-glx. :-)

Apologies, this is probably the wrong time and place for this, but...

Just on this, I expected that installing the packages would alter my X
config, like the livna packages for fedora. I was quite surprised when I
had to edit my X configuration (I was unaware that using the reconfigure
script would do that for me). I think the expectation for Joe User would
be that installing drivers makes the hardware work straight away.

Also, I managed to get them going but it's not automatically loading the
nvidia module. I ran update-modules, because there are nvidia files
in /etc/modules.whatever but still no joy. It's quite likely I've done
something "wrong", but I didn't get any clues as to what was "right".

Finally (and this probably belongs in bugzilla but anyway), I upgraded
my kernel with apt and used apt to get the nvidia stuff. The nvidia
package installation complained that there was already stuff
in /lib/modules/`uname -r`. I thought to myself "of course there is!".
Anyway, it suggested that I move that dir out of the way and continue
with installation. Which I did. I eventually had to copy the old
directory onto the new one to get it to work.

I'll run through it again if you need more details but I found the whole
process pretty confusing.

Thanks all,

James.
-- 
James Gregory <james at james.id.au>
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