In a previous post I reported the successful results of running DDM with an nvidia Ge210 (at least as far as identifying the card goes). I have now tried it with two further nvdia cards.
Ge8500GT
The Ge8500GT card is successfully identified:
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richard@antec ~ $ debian-driver-manager
cat /etc/*-release | grep ebian | wc -l
>>> 5
kdesudo -i /usr/share/linuxmint/logo.png -d --comment "<b>Please enter your password</b>" python /usr/lib/debian-driver-manager/ddm.py
apt-cache policy nvidia-detect
>>> nvidia-detect:
>>> Installed: 302.17-3
>>> Candidate: 302.17-3
>>> Version table:
>>> *** 302.17-3 0
>>> 500 http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/ testing/non-free i386 Packages
>>> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
---nvidia-detect:
---Installed: 302.17-3
---installed
lspci | grep VGA
>>> 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G86 [GeForce 8500 GT] (rev a1)
nvidia-detect | grep nvidia- | tr -d ' '
>>> nvidia-glx
apt-cache policy nvidia-glx
>>> nvidia-glx:
>>> Installed: (none)
>>> Candidate: 302.17-3
>>> Version table:
>>> 302.17-3 0
>>> 500 http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/ testing/non-free i386 Packages
---nvidia-glx:
---Installed: (none)
---not installed
lspci | egrep '(Network)|(Broadcom)|(Wireless)'
>>> 01:01.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc -l
>>> 1
uname -r
>>> 3.2.0-3-486
FX5200
Unfortunately, I can't get the PC to boot to a desktop with an old FX5200 card. This sits in an older PCI slot rather than the AGP or Express slots for the other two cards. Not sure if this makes any difference, but the PC will only boot to a terminal prompt. Looking at the Xorg.0.log shows:
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EE NVIDIA: Failed to load NVIDIA kernel module - check kernel log for more error messages
II UnloadModule: "nvidia"
No drivers available
No screens found
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# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 304.32 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-12) Thu Aug 2 19:35:49 PDT 2012
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 295.20 (buildd@murphy) Wed Feb 15 23:01:16 UTC 2012
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "built-ins"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "record"
Load "dri2"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "CRT-1"
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 210"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-1"
Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1280x1024 +0+0, DFP: 1280x1024 +1280+0"
Option "Coolbits" "1"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "TripleBuffer" "false"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "enable"
# Option "RENDER" "disable"
EndSection