OK, I followed the advice and just tried it on a spare user machine.
apt-get install nvidia-kernel-2.6.15-grml
That much worked but was not the whole story. Hardware autodetection of the nVidia card seems to be a problem. My current impression is that GRML does not detect it or set it up properly.
At boot time, grml-x creates /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Now as a test, I ran nvidia-xconfig by hand, which creates its own /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Then I rebooted. That didn't work. When I rebooted, X would not start properly. So I fell back to the old xorg.conf.
Even though nVidia drivers are installed, GRML 0.6-1 hardware autodetection fails to use them. Hence it could be considered a bug or missing feature in the hardware autodetection.
Hardware autodetection is the reason I use GRML, and it has the best I have seen, don't get me wrong. There may well be something I am doing wrong, please forgive me if I seem obtuse or dumb, I just report what I see in terms that I understand.
Thanks, Mark
* Mark or2uvma02@sneakemail.com [20060202 02:15]:
OK, I followed the advice and just tried it on a spare user machine.
apt-get install nvidia-kernel-2.6.15-grml
That much worked but was not the whole story. Hardware autodetection of the nVidia card seems to be a problem. My current impression is that GRML does not detect it or set it up properly.
You won't get hardware autodetection for closed source nvidia drivers.
At boot time, grml-x creates /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Now as a test, I ran nvidia-xconfig by hand, which creates its own /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Then I rebooted. That didn't work. When I rebooted, X would not start properly. So I fell back to the old xorg.conf.
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You don't have to reboot if you modify xorg.conf, just restart X.
See http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=nvidia for instructions. Thanks to Timo Boettcher for verifying instructions.
regards, -mika-
You won't get hardware autodetection for closed source nvidia drivers.
Thanks for confirming the diagnosis. I wish they were open source too.
Closed source does not technically prevent autodetection. In fact since grml-x already accepts nvidia switches, it should be trivial to invoke them automatically on PCs with nvidia cards. I may just mod grml-x myself for my users.
You don't have to reboot if you modify xorg.conf, just restart X.
Well, a reboot should also have worked. The problem is that I used nvidia's x setup tool instead of grml-x, probably.
Thanks. Mark
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