Schoelje wrote:This application will only install drivers from repository.
In your case nvidia-detect suggests nvidia-glx.
Did you install your current drivers by sgfxi, or maybe manually?
I suppose I'm too late now to say that you need to be certain before you change the drivers: I don't know what's going to happen when you change drivers.
The purpose of the application is to facilitate easy driver install for inexperienced users and a virgin install of a Debian based distribution.
If you haven't already changed the drivers, I'd like to see what nvidia packages you have installed now:
On the other hand, for me it's very important to know what the results are if you do change drivers...
TOO LATE
but no harm done. Yes, I had already installed nvidia drivers usinf sgfxi. Your driver install script didn't like that at all!. It started OK then locked the terminal. I tried to run it again but it just said
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>>> E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
So I ran that:
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antec ~ # sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up nvidia-installer-cleanup (20120630+1) ...
Welcome to the NVIDIA Software Installer for Unix/Linux
If you plan to no longer use the NVIDIA driver, you should make sure that no X screens are configured to use the NVIDIA X driver in your X configuration file. If
you used nvidia-xconfig to configure X, it may have created a backup of your original configuration. Would you like to run `nvidia-xconfig
--restore-original-backup` to attempt restoration of the original X configuration file?
[default: (N)o]:
N
and it locked up for good.
So I just rebooted and all was fine.
FYI:
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richard@antec ~ $ apt search nvidia | grep ^i
i nvidia-detect - NVIDIA GPU detection utility
richard@antec ~ $
richard@antec ~ $
and
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richard@antec ~ $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 304.32 Thu Aug 2 18:28:46 PDT 2012
GCC version: gcc version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-8)
richard@antec ~ $
So there are a couple of things I can do if you want:
1. Carry on with this install of UP5 with the sgfxi version of nvidia drivers and just swap out the Ge210 card for the GE8500GT and again for the FX5200 and post if the first part of your script detects them correctly (easy enough)
OR
2. Uninstall UP5 and stick a vanilla version of UP4 on - then run the full DDM script for each card?