[Cialug] Stuck on Nvidia GF Ti 4200 config

Barry Von Ahsen barry at vonahsen.com
Thu Jun 16 21:14:49 CDT 2005


Alan Maupin wrote:
> I'm attempting to install Debian 3.1 again and I'm once again stuck at the
> point of trying to install Nvidia Drivers.  I'm running the 2.6.8-686
> Kernel.
> 

apt-get install kernel-headers-`uname -r` (those are backtics)
apt-get install build-essential module-assistant
module-assistant auto-install nvidia
apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-settings
echo nvidia >> /etc/modules
modprobe nvidia
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

(stolen and modified from Theron from 
http://www.cialug.org/ewiki/?id=edit/Using+Nvidia+with+Debian)

-barry


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