SurlyJake » nvidia http://www.surlyjake.com Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:27:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Karmic install cannot login (gdm freezes) Nvidia http://www.surlyjake.com/linux/karmic-install-cannot-login-gdm-freezes-nvidia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=karmic-install-cannot-login-gdm-freezes-nvidia http://www.surlyjake.com/linux/karmic-install-cannot-login-gdm-freezes-nvidia/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:13:46 +0000 jacob http://www.surlyjake.com/?p=560 On a fresh install of karmic, using an Nvidia 7800 GT. When I went to click on my username to log in, some artifacts would appear on the screen, then the system would freeze. hard. Couldnt even ctrl+alt to another console. Installing the Nvidia drivers fixed the issue. To fix it:

  1. Do a hard reset on the machine
  2. When you arrive at the GDM screen, DO NOT CLICK ON ANYTHING.
  3. press CTRL + ALT + F5. Your screen will switch over to a text console.
  4. Log in.
  5. Install the Nvidia glx driver
    6. sudo aptitude install nvidia-glx-new
  6. Reboot the machine.
    7. sudo reboot
]]> http://www.surlyjake.com/linux/karmic-install-cannot-login-gdm-freezes-nvidia/feed/ 0 Install Debian Lenny Nvidia Drivers using binary packages http://www.surlyjake.com/linux/debian-lenny/install-debian-lenny-nvidia-drivers-using-binary-packages/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=install-debian-lenny-nvidia-drivers-using-binary-packages http://www.surlyjake.com/linux/debian-lenny/install-debian-lenny-nvidia-drivers-using-binary-packages/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:30:40 +0000 jacob http://www.surlyjake.com/?p=287 As usual, the official Debian wiki has a great writeup on getting the Drivers installed. http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers. Do yourself a favor and read the document. It will give you the full story and not just the regurgitated short version below. I use debian because I like the packaging system. I think it works well. why add the agony of recompiling drivers whenever you update kernels and whatnot. Since X was broken, The key was to switch to a console session BEFORE logging in using GDM. As soon as the login page comes up, press CTRL+ALT+F2. This is what I had to be able to log in and use my X session:

Login as root.

I used the netinst disk and had to add the “non-free” and “contrib” repositories. to do this, edit /etc/apt/sources.list.

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Find the line line that has something like

deb http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/debian/debian/ lenny main
deb-src http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/debian/debian/ lenny main

add “contrib non-free” to the end of both of these lines and then do a “aptitude update”

# apt-get install module-assistant nvidia-kernel-common
# m-a auto-install nvidia-kernel${VERSION}-source
# apt-get install nvidia-glx${VERSION}

In the device section, add

Driver "nvidia"

Restart GDM (and subsequently X)

# invoke-rc.d gdm restart

Install The nvidia settings interface thingy if you want. This can also verify if the driver is actually running.

aptitude install nvidia-settings

In debian, the package doesn’t install a shortcut for some reason, so just launch it by typing “nvidia-settings” into the console.

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