nVidia graphics drivers on Debian?

[Annorax]

Now that I've had to push Ubuntu aside for Debian, can someone explain just how the hell I'm supposed to get nVidia display drivers on this thing? There's no Debian official installer, and I don't know shit about anything else...

[ReggieMicheals]

When I had debian, the installer allowed me to choose the driver you wanted. When it asks you what display driver you want, scroll down to Nv. That is the nvidia driver...

[piratePenguin]

nvidia.com

@Reggie: They're the free nvidia drivers - not Nvidia's.

[Aloone_Jonez]

Are they any better though?

[piratePenguin]

Are they any better though?

AFAIK, the free nvidia driver ('nv') doesn't have hardware acceleration because nvidia isn't releasing the documentation the developers need, and nobody's trying to reverse engineer the nvidia drivers or anything like that.

Same goes for ATi except people are trying to get free drivers with hardware acceleration out, and they're doing a pretty good job sofar. But it's still not easy, what they're doing.

[KernelPanic]

AFAIK there is no 'Debian installer', you just have to use the gerneric installer of the prorietary nvidia driver.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html

Download the relevent driver, then drop out of X and:
$ sh ./NVIDIA-xx-xx-yy-blah-blah.run

This will compile (if nessesary) and install the kernel module (nvidia). You will then need to modify your xorg.conf/XF86Config so that you are using the nvidia driver rather than nv. Restart X and enjoy.
Also, read the docs on the nvidia page for any quirks.

[solemnwarning]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Don't use the official nVidia installer, it breaks a lot of debian!

Do all this as root:
1. Open your /etc/apt/sources.list is whatever editor you want
2. On the end of both your main deb repo lines add " non-free contrib"
3. Save the file and run `apt-get update`
4. Run `apt-get install module-assistant nvidia-glx nvidia-settings`
5. Run `m-a a-i nvidia`
6. Run `echo nvidia >> /etc/modules"`
6. Run `dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86` and select the nvidia driver

if you are running a debian stock kernel you will also need to download the apt package containing the kernel headers.

Also, build ur own kernels, debian stock kernels suck

[WMD]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Don't use the official nVidia installer, it breaks a lot of debian!

Yeah right.  On its own, it does barely anything.

[solemnwarning]

Yeah right.  On its own, it does barely anything.

No, really it overwrites a load of the xserver libs and files which ends up breaking apt and making the server break most of the time

[Annorax]

No, really it overwrites a load of the xserver libs and files which ends up breaking apt and making the server break most of the time

This is why after reading a few posts, I ignored the nvidia installer completely and did it the debian way.

Next mission: getting either Wine or Crossover to do something reasonably close to running Partypoker's newly fucked client. I'm clueless on how to do that, though.

[piratePenguin]

Next mission: getting either Wine or Crossover to do something reasonably close to running Partypoker's newly fucked client. I'm clueless on how to do that, though.

Install wine (should be in the repositories) and run 'wine partypoker-installer.exe' (or whatever the installer's called) and see how installation goes. Then, run 'wine partypoker.exe' (or whatever the binary's called, which will be in your fake c: drive)...

Not sure if you'll needa do some configuration first.

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=2133

[Annorax]

Install wine (should be in the repositories) and run 'wine partypoker-installer.exe' (or whatever the installer's called) and see how installation goes. Then, run 'wine partypoker.exe' (or whatever the binary's called, which will be in your fake c: drive)...

Not sure if you'll needa do some configuration first.

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=2133

Didn't work. I get some "Custom user interface plugin raised exception on event EV_SHOWDIALOGS" from the installer.

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annorax@squirrel-debian:~$ su
Password:
squirrel-debian:/home/annorax# wine PartyPokerSetup.exe
Invoking /usr/lib/wine/wine.bin PartyPokerSetup.exe ...
wine: creating configuration directory '/root/.wine'...
wine: '/root/.wine' created successfully.
fixme:win:SetWindowTextA cannot set text "Preparing \"Set2c1\" package..." of other process window (nil)
Wine exited with a successful status
squirrel-debian:/home/annorax#


Help a n00b fix this and get back to work?

[piratePenguin]

According to http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=2133 it installs OK. Unless what you're installing isn't 1.2 build 92...

What version of wine is it ('wine --version' probably)? If it's > 0.9.3, partypoker 1.2 build 92 should work.

[Annorax]

According to http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=2133 it installs OK. Unless what you're installing isn't 1.2 build 92...

What version of wine is it ('wine --version' probably)? If it's > 0.9.3, partypoker 1.2 build 92 should work.

Wine 0.9.10. Party's had a few updates since build 92... they like to intentionally break stuff like Wine. Build 92 isn't an option anymore, either... they block everything but the most recent build from even connecting.