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Hi I'm using Debian Lenny and a Nvidia GeForce FX5200 graphics card through pci and every thing works fine except when I go to play games, then every thing slows down, or the game may not start at all.
I did some searches and see that I'd need some drivers and something to enable hardware acceleration.
I looked for the drivers on symatic and aptitude but I don't see the ones that every one talks about the nvidia-173, so what packages do I need to get going?
I need help.
Execute that as root and it will configure X for you.
You have to restart X after that.
I tryed it but no luck it's saying it failed.
I use Xfree so I will do an edit on my own.
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce FX 5200"
Will that work?
I have a 6200 and this is how I got mine to work. Logged on as ROOT. Go to Nvidia and download NVIIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1.run and put it in /usr/src. Then go to http://www.pendrivelinux.com/how-to-ins ... ian-lenny/
Open Terminal and follow steps 2,3,4,6 and 7 and below. Mine came right up and works great.
P.S. Don't forget to substitute the NVIIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1.run with the one in step 7.
It still failed saying,
(II) Module Nvidia not found.
(EE) NVIDIA failed to load the nvidia kernel module.
(EE) NVIDIA *** aborting ***
(EE) Screens found but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal Server Error:
No screens found.
And
comsparks wrote:I have a 6200 and this is how I got mine to work. Logged on as ROOT. Go to Nvidia and download NVIIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1.run and put it in /usr/src. Then go to http://www.pendrivelinux.com/how-to-ins ... ian-lenny/
Open Terminal and follow steps 2,3,4,6 and 7 and below. Mine came right up and works great.
P.S. Don't forget to substitute the NVIIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1.run with the one in step 7.
linuxbobelhead wrote:Hi I'm using Debian Lenny and a Nvidia GeForce FX5200 graphics card through pci and every thing works fine except when I go to play games, then every thing slows down, or the game may not start at all.
I did some searches and see that I'd need some drivers and something to enable hardware acceleration.
I looked for the drivers on symatic and aptitude but I don't see the ones that every one talks about the nvidia-173, so what packages do I need to get going?
I need help.
If you don't see the nvidia drivers it might be because your /ext/apt/sources.list don't have contrib and non-free added yet. If that's the case, after adding them you need to do an
apt-get update
to get them added to the list of packages you see with apt-get or synaptic. Personally, I thought it was easier to temporarily run the x-windows vesa or nv driver so I could use synaptic in x-windows to install the nvidia drivers instead of doing it by hand as the wiki shows or doing it with the nvidia .run package.
Last edited by thriftee on 2009-02-26 15:39, edited 1 time in total.
Too many computers to list. I wonder if there is a moral in there somewhere?
# aptitude search nvidia-kernel
v nvidia-kernel-173.14.09 -
i A nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-1-686 - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.6.
i A nvidia-kernel-common - NVIDIA binary kernel module common files
i nvidia-kernel-source - NVIDIA binary kernel module source
# uname -r
2.6.27.7-debian-lenny
Original xorg.conf
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
Be sure to clean up everything wrt installing the .run stuff from nvidia.com before going ahead with the HOW-TO and also uninstall nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-1-686, since that's meant for a kernel you don't have.
Error: (224) your system is missing the required kernel headre package: Linux-he,
and it is not available in apt. Cannot continue.
Update the kernel and kernel headers or find and install kernel headers for...
I didn't get the whole message but thats it I think.
what now?
Will install the kernel headers for your current kernel (uname -r).
I have no experience with those sgfxi scripts, but you probably have to set the appropriate GCC versions with:
Will install the kernel headers for your current kernel (uname -r).
I have no experience with those sgfxi scripts, but you probably have to set the appropriate GCC versions with:
No, if you needed that version you wouldn't have to do anything, look at /usr/bin/gcc and you'll see it's linked to gcc-4.3.
The issue is that the kernel is compiled with gcc-4.1 (have no idea why though) and since you're going to compile things against your kernel, you need to use the same gcc version of it, which is gcc-4.1.
Using that export command will (temporarily) set it to gcc-4.1
