alternate xf86config

[Ken Moffat]

Net Llama! wrote:

> On 01/01/2005 05:24 PM, Wade Barocsi wrote:
>
>> Hi, and Happy New Year,
>>
>> I just jumped to the modern era with a 2.6 series kernel.
>> Libranet is a bit slow releasing, so I upgraded to
>> a mix of libranet and debian"unstable".
>>
>> The Nvidia driver (for 3d acceleration) locks up.
>> I used the newest version and nvidia's installer, but can't seem
>> to get it to work.
>
>
> join the club.  I've yet to get any 3d love with my nvidia card.
>

I've had minor issues with nvidia, but on most of my systems it works 
well. There are debian packages, and I'm running debian 3 with kernel 
2.6.9-1-k7 (prepackaged) and the nvidia packages loaded nicely. This is 
true about mepis and ubuntu.

On debian I installed 3 packages:
nvidia-kernel-common
nvidia-kernel-source
nvidia-settings

This works well.

On my Slackware 10 system I used the driver from the nvidia website 
without problem.

You do need to read the README stuff, which explains the proper editing 
of the XF86Config-4 or xorg.conf file.


-- 
ken