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

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jongi · #21 Post by **jongi** » 2007-05-10 23:01

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 · #22 Post by **mzilikazi** » 2007-05-10 23:10

jongi wrote: 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 · #23 Post by **jongi** » 2007-05-10 23:31

aah the Shaka right hand man

mzilikazi · #24 Post by **mzilikazi** » 2007-07-06 21:46

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 · #25 Post by **Chris Cornell** » 2007-07-11 09:30

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

CocoAUS · #26 Post by **CocoAUS** » 2007-07-29 08:03

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 · #27 Post by **Chris Cornell** » 2007-07-31 12:17

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

CocoAUS · #28 Post by **CocoAUS** » 2007-08-01 02:57

Chris Cornell wrote: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 · #29 Post by **Chris Cornell** » 2007-08-01 13:27

CocoAUS wrote:
Chris Cornell wrote: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 · #30 Post by **bibou91** » 2007-08-25 10:35

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 · #31 Post by **plugwash** » 2007-08-25 12:34

can you try

LANG=C modprobe nvidia

so we can actually make sense of the error message

bibou91 · #32 Post by **bibou91** » 2007-08-25 13:03

Sorry

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

paul555 · #33 Post by **paul555** » 2007-08-30 14:05

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 · #34 Post by **mshihrer** » 2007-09-09 07:20

paul555 wrote: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 · #35 Post by **mzilikazi** » 2007-09-09 13:40

mshihrer wrote: 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.

the · #36 Post by **the** » 2007-09-15 20:16

bibou91 wrote:Sorry

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

I'm getting the exact same error! I use ATI, and when I modprobe fglrx

Terminal wrote:

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# LANG= modprobe fglrx
sh: /sbin/lrm-video: No such file or directory
FATAL: Error running install command for fglrx

Any help here?

jongi · #37 Post by **jongi** » 2007-10-03 19:43

Which package provides glxinfo?

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[root:~#] dpkg -l | grep nvidia
ii  nvidia-glx                           100.14.19-1                 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
ii  nvidia-kernel-2.6.22.9               100.14.19-1+jng2            NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.6.22
ii  nvidia-kernel-common                 20051028+1-0.1              NVIDIA binary kernel module common files
ii  nvidia-kernel-source                 100.14.19-1                 NVIDIA binary kernel module source
ii  nvidia-settings                      1.0+20060516-3              Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driv
ii  nvidia-xconfig                       1.0+20070502-1              The NVIDIA X Configuration Tool

EDIT: The answer is - mesa-utils

~rob33n · #38 Post by **~rob33n** » 2007-10-13 00:15

I couldnt install the driver.I did all of them but I got an error like this.
my graphic card is geForce go7400 and using debian 'etch' rc1
I'm laptop user. sony vaio vgn-fe41m

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Failed to start X Server.
Failed to load module Nvidia
no drivers available

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rob33n@debian:~$ sudo dpkg -l | grep nvidia
ii  nvidia-glx                           1.0.8776-4                       NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver
ii  nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-5-686           1.0.8776-4+2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch4 NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.6.18
ii  nvidia-kernel-common                 20051028+1-0.1                   NVIDIA binary kernel module common files
ii  nvidia-kernel-source                 1.0.8776-4                       NVIDIA binary kernel module source
ii  nvidia-settings                      1.0+20060516-3                   Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driv
ii  nvidia-xconfig                       1.0+20070502-1                   The NVIDIA X Configuration Tool

and here is the logs for nvidia and xorg.

http://rafb.net/p/SYW89v29.html
http://rafb.net/p/CCVFHy77.html

sith2242 · #39 Post by **sith2242** » 2007-10-14 17:08

i intall the nvidia driver using the Standard method , i get the nvidia logo but wen i did dmesg it show this

**WARNING** I2C adapter driver [NVIDIA I2C Device] forgot to specify physical device; fix it!
**WARNING** I2C adapter driver [NVIDIA I2C Device] forgot to specify physical device; fix it!
**WARNING** I2C adapter driver [NVIDIA I2C Device] forgot to specify physical device; fix it!
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISOFS: changing to secondary root
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.

how do i specify the physical device ?

mzilikazi · #40 Post by **mzilikazi** » 2007-10-14 19:51

~rob33n wrote:I couldnt install the driver.I did all of them but I got an error like this.
my graphic card is geForce go7400 and using debian 'etch' rc1
I'm laptop user. sony vaio vgn-fe41m

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Failed to start X Server.
Failed to load module Nvidia
no drivers available

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rob33n@debian:~$ sudo dpkg -l | grep nvidia
ii  nvidia-glx                           1.0.8776-4                       NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver
ii  nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-5-686           1.0.8776-4+2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch4 NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.6.18
ii  nvidia-kernel-common                 20051028+1-0.1                   NVIDIA binary kernel module common files
ii  nvidia-kernel-source                 1.0.8776-4                       NVIDIA binary kernel module source
ii  nvidia-settings                      1.0+20060516-3                   Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driv
ii  nvidia-xconfig                       1.0+20070502-1                   The NVIDIA X Configuration Tool

and here is the logs for nvidia and xorg.

http://rafb.net/p/SYW89v29.html
http://rafb.net/p/CCVFHy77.html

Did you probe the nvidia dirver?

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modprobe nvidia

How did you install the driver? The Debian way presumably?