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Nvidia Glx Installation
For : Mepis Linux 6.5 By : je.saist Many Nvidia cards supported by Nvidia-Glx may not load properly with the Opt-In Nvidia-Glx driver, often giving either an entirely black screen, or a black screen with a cursor in the upper left hand corner. This is due to the refresh rate or monitor not being correctly recognized by the automatic configuration. In these cases the Nvidia-Glx driver will need to be installed manually, but with a twist. If you already know that your card will black screen, you can go ahead and run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg after installing the driver. Nvidia GLX 6.5 | Dpkg Part 1 | Dpkg Part 2 | Nvidia Beryl Fix
A short note about the NV X.org driver before we begin. It essentially a placeholder driver equivelent to VESA. More information is available here :: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/nv. Like the VESA driver, the NV driver only offers barebones non-accelerated 2D display. While there is a project underway to reverse engineer drivers for Nvidia cards, Nouveau, no cards are currently supported. For the purposes of support underneath Mepis 6.5, the NV driver and VESA driver are considered to be the same. 1: Starting with a Left Click on System  2: Mouse up to MEPIS  3: And Left Click on MEPIS X-Windows Assistant  4: Enter your /root password and then Left Click on OK.  5: The General Tab. Left Click on the tab for NVIDIA.  6: Under Nvidia we can see that the Vesa class NV driver is in use.  7: Left Click on the nvidia (new) driver to select it.  8: Left Click on Apply.  9: Left Click on Yes to start the installation.  10: Depending on your internet connection speed, this could take a while.  11: When the driver is installed, Left Click on OK.  12: Then Close the Mepis X-Windows Assistant.  If you don't need to reconfigure your driver, reboot If you DO need to reconfigure your driver... Go foward to the First Part of Dpkg-Reconfigure. Skip to the Second part of Dpkg-Reconfigure? Go to the fix for Beryl on nvidia-glx? Take me back to the Guides. |