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Old 02-28-2005, 12:58 PM   #1
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Latitude D800 Debian Linux NVIDIA Driver

I've got a Latitude D800 with NVIDIA Go 4400 64MB and the WUXGA+ (1920x1200).
I'm running Debian w/ kernel 2.6.10-1-686.
My XF86Config-4 file seems to work great at 1920x1200 but the problem is the nvidia driver.
First I tried using apt to get the nvidia driver from a repository, X errored out when trying to load KDE or gnome. So I uninstalled it and just downloed the self-extracting driver from nvidia.com
I was able to install the driver and change my XF86Config-4 to run the nvidia driver, startx and no problems, runs great. If I exit out of X or restart the machine as soon as I start x again it errors out. Says that screen(s) found but no usable configuration, plus it says Fatal Error: No Screens Found. I have to uninstall the driver and reinstall it to run X again. But it will only run one time.

I was wondering if any one else had this problem, or if any one had an idea on how to fix it.

Thanks!
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Old 03-05-2005, 09:31 AM   #2
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I don't know how to help you, but I followed the instructions here when I installed debian on my 8500 with a 4200 Go:

http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debi...tallation.html
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doing apt-get install for the drivers is a no no
just go to nvidia's page for the drivers.
I bet they are in .rpm format
then just alien file.rpm and that will convert it to .deb
then dpkg -i file.deb.


you need to build the module , modprobe it etc..
BUT you need to have kernel sources installed... check nvidia's page for instructions
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Old 03-15-2005, 01:45 PM   #4
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Uh.... I'm not sure I got your smiley right... Do you mean it's a no no because you will get newer drivers and more system-specific configuration if you compile them yourself (or whatever you do with the drivers from nvidia)?

I'm just wondering what you mean
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That's for ati though...
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