tjc - The issue I am having is I cannot get an xorg file to work with anything but an nv setting as driver. I copied my monitor settings and tried various other things. Also tried some posted working xorgs from wilson's site. No go. I have questions with logs posted on the nvidia forum about that and the 8776 driver not scaling on my system.

Can someone lead me through an new driver install on R5E50 ?

I use a diskless frontend with a 6200 card, and with R5E50 I am getting hard freezez on the frontend. It looks like a driver problem to me, but I dont know which one. I wanted to change the nvidia driver to rule it out (by matching it to the one I use on my R5D1 install).

However without the source, I have a problem. (which I can fix) but mor eembarresingly I dont even know how to kill the X server so I can install the drivers. Every time I kill it it respawns

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I am trying to update my nVidia drivers on R5E1 using the install-nvidia-debian script, but when I run it, I get this:



Can somone please help? I get a similar error when installing the drivers directly from nVidia's website:


Thanks!

See Cecil's posting about getting the kernel source. The headers that you need to compile modules are there, but that script hasn't been updated to recognize that fact.

Tell me if I'm wrong but I was using XvMC on R5D1 with my nvidia card and I am not able to install the same driver on R5E50. I tried to install the kernel source as indicated in cecil's post but I'm still not able to install Nvidia driver with the script "install-nvidia-debian.sh". Is there a way I can use XvMC because my HD box is really not usable without it?

Searching for xvmc should find you a recent post about fixing a config file (/etc/X11/XvMCConfig)...

I tried to do a search about that but I didn't find anything usefull on this forum. Also, I think that before to configure something about XvMC I really need to install the nvidia driver first. Am I right?

I am having an absolutely miserable time trying to get the latest nVidia drivers to install; could someone please build a set of .debs for me (and anyone else having this problem)?

Thanks!

I am having trouble installing the latest 0.1-9x drivers. After grabbing the source and merging that with the headers, it still errors out. Something that has to do with a patch level. Not sure about the details. Someone will figure it out I am sure. Just be patient. The latest drivers do not add anything of major importance over what is in the E50 release. Those are stable and have been tested for a long time.

Yes they do add something important...suspend to RAM support!

To fix the patchlevel problem, you will need to link /lib/modules/2.6.18-chw-13/source to /usr/src/linux

The problem then becomes a missing scripts/basic/fixdep file.

With the included driver in in the R5E50 release XvMC doesn't seem to work and I was not able to set my resolution to 1280x720 for my HD tv. So I think it is important to have the nvidia driver.

I also I think that the release includes the "nv" driver which is open source but misses a lot of fonctionnalities but the "nvidia" driver has all the features.

Using my mighty, mighty search mojo, I cut & pasted the path that I had highlighted in red in my earlier posting into the search form, clicked the "require all terms" radio button (this is one of the 3 key elements of my search mojo), hit enter, and this was the first thing (other than this current thread) that it found:
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13326&highlight=x11+xvmcconfig
The third post in the referenced thread tells you exactly the change you need to make. The existing drivers should work fine once you fix that.

BTW - The 3 key elements of my search mojo are:

1) Use the keywords that you'd use in a message title or that people tell you to try.
2) Try some basic synonyms and singular versus plural changes.
3) Use the "require all terms" radio button.

Fixed a typo ("raido" -> "radio") sigh...

Well, I worked around the problem by downloading, compiling, and installing the 2.6.19 kernel from kernel.org. I needed to recompile anyway to force DMA on, so everything was OK.