Nvidia driver - Debian way, custom (or not) kernel.

[tmafcerqueira]

Will this driver allow me to use beryl + aiglx on my desktop?

[mzilikazi]

Will this driver allow me to use beryl + aiglx on my desktop?

Assuming you have a supported Nvidia card then yes Beryl will work.

[morax]

Thanks for this.

[jongi]

Here is what I did on KDE system to install the latest nVidia driver

1. Download the driver

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# cd /home/user
# wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9755/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9755-pkg1.run

Obviously the name will change as per driver.

2. Enter a non x-server terminal and run the package

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Ctrl-Alt-F1
# su -
<Enter password>
# cd /home/user
# /etc/init.d/kdm stop
# sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9755-pkg1.run
<Follow instructions>
# /etc/init.d/kdm start

[mzilikazi]

For those of us running KDE, to install the nVidia driver from the site change

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/etc/init.d/gdm stop

to

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/etc/init.d/kdm stop

And after running the nVidia package, then

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/etc/init.d/kdm start

KDM is mentioned in the original post BTW.

[jongi]

yeah. i was hoping I could change the post before someone quotes it. Obviously that failed

mzilikazi is a distinctly South African sounding name

[mzilikazi]

mzilikazi is a distinctly South African sounding name

Indeed it is! I first heard of Mzilikazi in Micheners book "The Covenant" and found him to be a very fascinating man.

[jongi]

aah the Shaka right hand man

[mzilikazi]

This post was updated for the latest Nvidia driver available from Debian repos. This is just a quick note to remind those that may still be subscribed to this thread.

[Chris Cornell]

thx a lot. As you can see in my signature I run it successfully.
Much appreciate your Howto.

[CocoAUS]

WHY THE EFF isn't nvidia-kernel ever in the repos? It would be really nice to be able to just install nvidia-glx and be done with it.

[Chris Cornell]

which repos? the official one? ever thought about the licence?

[CocoAUS]

which repos? the official one? ever thought about the licence?

It is (or was not long ago...too lazy to check) in the Testing and Stable repos. Besides, all the tools are right in the repos, just nvidia-kernel isn't.

[Chris Cornell]

which repos? the official one? ever thought about the licence?

It is (or was not long ago...too lazy to check) in the Testing and Stable repos. Besides, all the tools are right in the repos, just nvidia-kernel isn't.

I know. Than I don't understand your posting before. sorry for that.

[bibou91]

Hi!

I've followed this howto.
However it doesn't work for me.

When i do modprobe nvidia
I've this output

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 modprobe nvidia
sh: /sbin/lrm-video: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
FATAL: Error running install command for nvidia

People from non debian forums, may think because I had a ubuntu installed before.
When I've installed my debian I kept my home only.

I need your helps! Thank you!

[plugwash]

can you try

LANG=C modprobe nvidia

so we can actually make sense of the error message

[bibou91]

Sorry

sh: /sbin/lrm-video: No such file or directory
FATAL: Error running install command for nvidia

[paul555]

I followed the method which have mentioned in the first topic and now nvidia support is working ok but many opengl games are very slow and glxgears gives me low fps numbers

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$ glxgears 
1345 frames in 5.7 seconds = 234.673 FPS
562 frames in 5.6 seconds = 100.933 FPS
712 frames in 6.9 seconds = 103.724 FPS
661 frames in 5.3 seconds = 123.842 FPS
906 frames in 7.4 seconds = 122.698 FPS
722 frames in 5.4 seconds = 134.650 FPS
622 frames in 5.2 seconds = 120.659 FPS
811 frames in 5.0 seconds = 162.034 FPS
952 frames in 5.8 seconds = 164.088 FPS
601 frames in 5.3 seconds = 114.419 FPS
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

Does anyone know how to fix this?

[mshihrer]

I followed the method which have mentioned in the first topic and now nvidia support is working ok but many opengl games are very slow and glxgears gives me low fps numbers

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$ glxgears 
1345 frames in 5.7 seconds = 234.673 FPS
562 frames in 5.6 seconds = 100.933 FPS
712 frames in 6.9 seconds = 103.724 FPS
661 frames in 5.3 seconds = 123.842 FPS
906 frames in 7.4 seconds = 122.698 FPS
722 frames in 5.4 seconds = 134.650 FPS
622 frames in 5.2 seconds = 120.659 FPS
811 frames in 5.0 seconds = 162.034 FPS
952 frames in 5.8 seconds = 164.088 FPS
601 frames in 5.3 seconds = 114.419 FPS
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

Does anyone know how to fix this?

I was getting a similar, albeit far worse, result. I was lucky to get 60FPS. Far lower than what my system can do. Anyways, I just restarted my machine and it seemed to fix itself.

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30673 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6134.441 FPS
30560 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6111.946 FPS
30439 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6087.733 FPS
30617 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6123.334 FPS
30663 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6132.447 FPS
30767 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6153.300 FPS

I've never installed the nvidia drivers by following a guide, and still used module assistant and I decided to use this guide since there were some extra steps that I never took. So can I ask what the following line is for?

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grep -q ^nvidia /etc/modules || echo nvidia >> /etc/modules 

Thanks and well written howto!

[mzilikazi]

So can I ask what the following line is for?

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grep -q ^nvidia /etc/modules || echo nvidia >> /etc/modules 

It simply adds 'nvidia' to /etc/modules if it is not already there.