What package(s) are needed to install nvidia support ?

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Hi Fabio

This python script sounds neat, could you put an item on your "when the 
preview is out and the dust settled" list (for Hoary I think) to 
integrate this, or something similar, so that people get the nvidia 
binary kernel module, and X reconfigured, with OpenGL drivers rocking, 
with a single apt-get? And ATI too?

Cheers,
Mark

James Gregory wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 19:05 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
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>>On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:49:58AM +1000, James Gregory wrote:
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>>>Just on this, I expected that installing the packages would alter my X
>>>config, like the livna packages for fedora. I was quite surprised when I
>>>had to edit my X configuration (I was unaware that using the reconfigure
>>>script would do that for me). I think the expectation for Joe User would
>>>be that installing drivers makes the hardware work straight away.
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>>It's not clear to me how this would be implemented properly; I'd like to
>>hear Fabio's input on it.
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>the livna packages make reference to a python script that does the work.
>I don't know if it would be of any use, but it's probably worth
>inspecting:
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>    http://rpm.livna.org/livna-switcher.html
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>>>Also, I managed to get them going but it's not automatically loading the
>>>nvidia module. I ran update-modules, because there are nvidia files in
>>>/etc/modules.whatever but still no joy. It's quite likely I've done
>>>something "wrong", but I didn't get any clues as to what was "right".
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>>The module should be loaded automatically by hotplug at boot time; you
>>should be able to run /etc/init.d/hotplug restart to trigger it without
>>rebooting.
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>Ok. I'm not sure if hotplug was on there. I'll check tonight.
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>>>Finally (and this probably belongs in bugzilla but anyway), I upgraded my
>>>kernel with apt and used apt to get the nvidia stuff. The nvidia package
>>>installation complained that there was already stuff in
>>>/lib/modules/`uname -r`. I thought to myself "of course there is!".
>>>Anyway, it suggested that I move that dir out of the way and continue with
>>>installation. Which I did. I eventually had to copy the old directory onto
>>>the new one to get it to work.
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>>Can you be more specific?  Which package complained?  Do you have a
>>transcript of the upgrade?
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>No I don't. I'll try to recreate the scenario over the next few days and
>get you the transcript.
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>James.
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