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| jaccoboy 2007-02-04, 1:12 pm |
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Hello,I have debian sarge 2 dvd download edition.
My videocard is a geforce 4mx 4000
Support sarge this videocard or must i install a driver from the
nvidia website?
or is the testing distribution codename etch better for my videocard?
Plz help.
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| Lasse Jensen 2007-02-04, 7:13 pm |
| jaccoboy wrote:
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> Hello,I have debian sarge 2 dvd download edition.
> My videocard is a geforce 4mx 4000
> Support sarge this videocard or must i install a driver from the
> nvidia website?
> or is the testing distribution codename etch better for my videocard?
There are two different Nvidia drivers for Xorg. nv, which is GPL and
included on the DVD's and nvidia which is propertiary and developed by
Nvidia. I'm not sure if the DVD's include the non-free packages, but if it
does, it should be there.
The main differences between the drivers is that nvidia support hardware
OpenGL acceleration and nv don't.
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Lasse Jensen [fafler at g mail dot com]
Linux, the choice of a GNU generation.
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| AJackson 2007-02-06, 1:14 am |
| On Feb 4, 11:19 pm, Lasse Jensen <faf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> jaccoboy wrote:
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> There are two different Nvidia drivers for Xorg. nv, which is GPL and
> included on the DVD's and nvidia which is propertiary and developed by
> Nvidia. I'm not sure if the DVD's include the non-free packages, but if it
> does, it should be there.
>
> The main differences between the drivers is that nvidia support hardware
> OpenGL acceleration and nv don't.
The nvidia is not that hard to install over internet with etch. Just
use module-assistant to download source, compile and make package and
install it.
You realy should use Etch instead of Sarge. Etch is as stabel as
Sarge, and is much newer than Sarge.
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| Bill Smyth 2007-02-08, 1:13 pm |
| Hi, Also have a problem like this.
I have a PCI 5200 Nvidia card. the Sarge selected the versa and I can't
find the drivers on the source list. I need a net install. Which source
should add the package manager to get the correct drivers?
Thanks
"AJackson" <anders.jackson@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1170733568.372040.272480@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
> On Feb 4, 11:19 pm, Lasse Jensen <faf...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The nvidia is not that hard to install over internet with etch. Just
> use module-assistant to download source, compile and make package and
> install it.
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> You realy should use Etch instead of Sarge. Etch is as stabel as
> Sarge, and is much newer than Sarge.
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| AJackson 2007-02-09, 7:13 am |
| On Feb 8, 6:40 pm, "Bill Smyth" <j...@netzero.net> wrote:
> Hi, Also have a problem like this.
> I have a PCI 5200 Nvidia card. the Sarge selected the versa and I can't
> find the drivers on the source list. I need a net install. Which source
> should add the package manager to get the correct drivers?
Don't remember. It was so long ago I used Sarge. You could install
"nv", which is the Open Source 2D driver for Xorg. No, no 3D, all
thanks to nVidia.
You only need to add non-free after main and contrib in /etc/apt/
source.list
Then you should find source package. Don't remember if module-
assistant is in Sarge, but you should take some time and change to
Edge anyway, if you don't have special reason to not leave Sarge.
> Thanks
Hope it gives some help
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| John Hasler 2007-02-09, 1:13 pm |
| AJackson writes:
> ...you should take some time and change to Edge...
Etch.
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John Hasler
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| AJackson 2007-02-10, 1:14 am |
| On Feb 9, 2:18 pm, John Hasler <jhas...@debian.org> wrote:
> AJackson writes:
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> Etch.
Thanks for pointing that out, my fault. Sorry (was a bit tired  )
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| Paul Sutton 2007-02-11, 7:13 pm |
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jaccoboy wrote:
> Hello,I have debian sarge 2 dvd download edition.
> My videocard is a geforce 4mx 4000
> Support sarge this videocard or must i install a driver from the
> nvidia website?
> or is the testing distribution codename etch better for my videocard?
>
> Plz help.
>
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I seem to have the same video card, gforce4mx 4000, and am using debian
sid (unstable), i installed the nvidia drivers using the nvidia script
and it works great, I get a nice nvidia splashscreen too, I would
guess it should work with etch, and sarge,
There is a script that will install this for you.
bare in mind the following page of links / scripts are for kanotix
(debian sid),
http://kanotix.com/files/
may be useful
i think its a standard script to get, and do what ever is needed to
install the nvidia drivers, etc
Hope this helps
Paul
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