Debain linux

[Cobbydaler]

See if this helps when installing the driver:

My X server fails to start, and my X log file contains the error:
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!

The X driver will abort with this error message if the NVIDIA kernel module fails to load. If you receive this error, you should check the output of dmesg for kernel error messages and/or attempt to load the kernel module explicitly with modprobe nvidia. If unresolved symbols are reported, then the kernel module was most likely built against a Linux kernel source tree (or kernel headers) for a kernel revision or configuration that doesn't match the running kernel.
You can specify the location of the kernel source tree (or headers) when you install the NVIDIA driver using the --kernel-source-path command line option (see sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.11-pkg1.run --advanced-options for details).

[dragon]

Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

See if this helps when installing the driver:

Never mind got it now used the nvidia provided binary installer

oh and

Dragon:/home/dragon# uname -r
2.6.23-dragons

the Kernel I compiled from source actually works

Would try doing that on the macbook but i think i'd probably break madwifi

So desktop done now I just need to sort the sound on the macbook, the deafult browser and get some nicer fonts.

[Cobbydaler]

Glad you got it sorted!

A kernel with your own name on, I'm jealous!

Oh, have a look here re setting up MS fonts in Debian...

[dragon]

Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

Glad you got it sorted!

A kernel with your own name on, I'm jealous!

Oh, have a look here re setting up MS fonts in Debian...

Now regarding the macbook, I had a play about seems if I run the gnome sound/volume manager from a root terminal it works.

Seems like my user needs access to something to get control of the sound but what

I did try adding myself to the audio group but that didn't appear to work (unless a restart is required to read the changes?)
Unlike the desktop my user on this machine was created post install with the adduser command.

Edit:

Turns out I needed to add my user to the audio group and then restart

[Cobbydaler]

Originally Posted by dragon

Now regarding the macbook, I had a play about seems if I run the gnome sound/volume manager from a root terminal it works.

Seems like my user needs access to something to get control of the sound but what

I did try adding myself to the audio group but that didn't appear to work (unless a restart is required to read the changes?)
Unlike the desktop my user on this machine was created post install with the adduser command.

Edit:

Turns out I needed to add my user to the audio group and then restart

I don't think you actually need a restart, just log out & back in again...

[dragon]

Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

I don't think you actually need a restart, just log out & back in again...

Whopps oh well

Tried beryl but it doesn't seem to work properly it just gives a white screen unless you set redering path to copy but then its very glitchy

[Cobbydaler]

Originally Posted by dragon

Whopps oh well

Tried beryl but it doesn't seem to work properly it just gives a white screen unless you set redering path to copy but then its very glitchy

Try turning off xgl, you don't need it with newer nVidia cards. I've got a 6200 & I run in native mode...

Originally Posted by dragon

Whopps oh well

Tried beryl but it doesn't seem to work properly it just gives a white screen unless you set redering path to copy but then its very glitchy

Beryl is not developed anymore, why not try compiz-fusion ?

[dragon]

Originally Posted by TraxData

Beryl is not developed anymore, why not try compiz-fusion ?

added a repo containing compiz but im having a problem

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
compiz-plugins: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0) but 2.10.13-1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages


any ideas where to obtain a newer libgtk

[Cobbydaler]

There's a tutorial for installing compiz-fusion (compiz forked from Beryl, compiz-fusion is them recombined) on Etch here...

[dragon]

Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

There's a tutorial for installing compiz-fusion (compiz forked from Beryl, compiz-fusion is them recombined) on Etch here...

Thanks i'll give it a shot later in the week, after playing around with it all day getting things working on linux I decided to sit on windows and surf the internet for a bit (not sure if the streaming radio feed i currently have playing will work on linux)

Edit:

I think it was fusion I was trying to install but its the compiz-plugin package it wants to install thats causing me a problem, i'll try with that repo in the guide But it wouldn't surprise me if i come up against the same problem.

I get the feeling i'm about to drop right into dependency hell and from my past ventures into the Linux world I know that's not a nice place to be.

[ADd]

The link supplied by Cobbydaler looks straight forward enough dragon.

Install proprietry Nvidia drivers (a choice that is up to you), Debian also have a wiki entry here:

http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

Which may help - open or closed source drivers are up to you.

The steps after that are just adding the compiz-fusion repository to your sources.list ;backup your original sources.list with:

sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.old

or something similar (I'm using Kubuntu as the base - ensure sources.list is in the same path)

Of course with any repository - you need to trust what they are supplying you - have a Google around to confirm you are happy the source is trusted.

I don't use Nvidia cards - so have no particular experience, but it seems fairly straight-forward.

Best of luck

Incidentally the kernel you have created used Debians kernel tools - which 'changed' the vanilla kernel to work on Debian - so in essence the kernel is no longer vanilla - but a mute point really

EDIT:

If the .deb for compiz has been packaged correctly - all dependencies should be sorted out by apt (fingers crossed)

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[dragon]

Originally Posted by ADd

The link supplied by Cobbydaler looks straight forward enough dragon.

Install proprietry Nvidia drivers (a choice that is up to you), Debian also have a wiki entry here:

http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

Which may help - open or closed source drivers are up to you.

The steps after that are just adding the compiz-fusion repository to your sources.list ;backup your original sources.list with:

sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.old

or something similar (I'm using Kubuntu as the base - ensure sources.list is in the same path)

Of course with any repository - you need to trust what they are supplying you - have a Google around to confirm you are happy the source is trusted.

I don't use Nvidia cards - so have no particular experience, but it seems fairly straight-forward.

Best of luck

Incidentally the kernel you have created used Debians kernel tools - which 'changed' the vanilla kernel to work on Debian - so in essence the kernel is no longer vanilla - but a mute point really

EDIT:

If the .deb for compiz has been packaged correctly - all dependencies should be sorted out by apt (fingers crossed)

It was the laptop with a intel gma950 I was trying compiz on earlier, but i'll have another look at it and try again soon.

[dragon]

Originally Posted by dragon

It was the laptop with a intel gma950 I was trying compiz on earlier, but i'll have another look at it and try again soon.

I ment beryl but i get the same problem with compiz