debian amd64 Nvidia module

[ikonia]

hi all,

i'm running through some AMD64 builds using different distro's for some work I'm doing.

I've been running through the debian build quite well and I've found some nice features with it.

I am having quite a show stopping problem though.

My test machine has an Nvidia 6600 card in it.

I'm following the process for installing the nvidia driver from

http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debi...tallation.html

I'm using a stock kernel 2.6.8-11-amd64-generic

I've installed nvidia-cg-toolkit nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-settings

I believe I now have to install nvidia-kernel-common to be able to build a kernel module

the problem I'm having is that the apt repo's I'm using

deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64 testing main
deb-src http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64 testing main

deb ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free

do not contain the nvidia-kenel-common package.

Is this a known issue with the amd64 platform ?
Is there a repo that does contain these package ?

Is there a better way to install the nvidia package on amd64 debian (I realise I could get the package from nvidia.com but for the purpose of my testing I'm trying to follow the correct methods for each distro)

your advice would be greatly appriciated.

[directhex]

use a mirror listed on http://amd64.debian.net/README.mirrors.html

and once you've got your sources.list appropriately set:

aptitude install module-assistant
m-a prepare
m-a a-i nvidia
aptitude install nvidia-glx nvidia-settings nvidia-glx-ia32

you'll then want to add "nvidia" to the modules to load on boot (echo nvidia >> /etc/modules) and set the nvidia xfree86 driver to be the one used (dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86)

the files are definitely on the server, so i'm not 100% sure why it wouldn't be working as expected (e.g. http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian-amd6...74-3_amd64.deb)

[suryad]

Sweet thanks for this info...I might need it in the near future meself.

[ikonia]

nice advice - but this simpley isn't working

I've added

deb http://bytekeeper.as28747.net/debian-amd64/debian sarge main contrib non-free

to my sources file, apt-get update

apt-cache search nvidia still shows

mumra:~# apt-cache search nvidia
nvtv - tool to control TV chips on NVidia cards under Linux
nvidia-cg-toolkit - NVIDIA Cg Toolkit installer
nvidia-kernel-common - NVIDIA binary kernel module common files
nvidia-settings - Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver

I'm not quite seeing why I can't see the needed package, more so as your link proves the packages I need are in one of the repo's I'm using.

any other tips ?

[ikonia]

tried another two repo's

Same thing again.

Is there something could be stopping me from viewing the full archive.

do I need to add an extra repo other than sarge main contrib non-free ?

I'm a bit lost on this one

[directhex]

that SHOULD be it

try #debian-amd64 on freenode, they might have some extra insight. personally, i'm confused

[ikonia]

already been there directhex - a few people are having the same problem, although #debian-amd64 is quite quiet compared to #debian