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3D acceleration - Play a 3D game.
VDPAU - Use mplayer to play a high defintion video. Try once with xv output and once with vdpau. When using vdpau your CPU usage should be less.
Power management - I don't think this matters for a desktop.
Power management - I don't think this matters for a desktop.
Says the one with his passive cooling unit on the GPU :-D
I have active cooling on my GPU 
I have active cooling on my GPU
What about the noise?
possible answer in CAPS:
"WHAT NOISE?"
I think we got to the point that there is no point to get to.
[Updated]
There seems to be a lot of issues with nividia DKMS driver method currently. At least with updated kernels.
I had previously installed nvidia driver by the DKMS method. After installing virtualbox which messed with the xorg/xserver settings I could no longer start the nvidia driver even removing and reinstalling nvidia-kernel-dkms again. I even tried to remove and reinstall xorg and xserver-xorg-core
The solution is to install the nvidia driver from the remaining methods, either by the debian way, downloading from nvidia and install or by the sgfxi script. I used the former and solved. Remember to remove nvidia-kernel-dkms first. DKMS seems highly unreliable, currently.
More info:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ew-kernel/
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about1891.html
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … -troubles/
[Update]: Well this might be related to backports/testing/unstable xserver/xorg package updates currently going on. Probably won't affect stable users.
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … -graphics/
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=56833
Last edited by jotapesse (2011-08-31 13:49:32)
I found this if it's any use.
I had to register and reply to this; simply for the fact that your update suggests the possibility of using the "Debian way" to install the nvidia drivers. I have an old Optiplex GX-270 desktop case that came with the base to stand it on end. The onboard video is an Intel setup, I've never bother looking it over for the numbers as even on a MS OS it sucks. 
I got the comp for free, and semi-recently picked up a "dead" P4 box that had a nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 low-profile AGP card in it for $5. The "dead" PC only had a faulty master drive, the slave 250GB drive was fine, so was the mainboard, nVidia card, 2 memory sticks (1GB DDR), etc. I must have been a masochist in a previous life because I wanted to use the Dell instead of the beige tower...
Scouting for a decent Linux to run on it finally brought me here to #!, and I really like the setup so far. My only hitch has been the nVidia drivers. I think in the last 3 days I've installed and tried over 20 different methods for getting them to work with no success. So this evening, I looked at everything once more to see if I may have missed something. Rechecked the forums here to see if I missed anything. Rechecked Debian's site to see if I didn't try one of the methods. I came up empty-handed.
Thinking on it a bit more to see if there was some other way got me to thinking about past cards and how they needed to be installed on a Windows box. And that is when I found the solution. REMOVE THE NVIDIA CARD! (Capitalized to show importance. )
A clean install on the Optiplex without the nVidia card naturally gives you the Intel drivers, etc. Then all I had to do was follow the "Debian Way" until it tells me to restart X. I don't restart X, I shutdown the system. Then pop the nVidia card back in, adjust the BIOS to use the AGP video first, then save and allow the PC to boot up. I have my nVidia drivers without the nouveau setup screwing me over. 
I just felt that this needed to be said as this is a sticky about nVidia drivers. I do apologize if this is not the place to post this.
I used this guide to install drivers for a geforce 210 and it worked flawlessly, thanks.
Do you confirm that there are no problems with this installation?
Can i proceed?
I tried it on the Geforce GT 520 MX (Asus X53S).
Xorg wouldn't start after the reboot! I had to reinstall CrunchBang from the beginning...
Can you give us some more information:
Exactly what did you do.
When X does not start, try booting to a console.
(add 'text' kernel parameter to the boot command in grub)
In terminal:
cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log $HOME/Xorg.0.logTry to publish the file $HOME/Xorg.0.log in this forum:
throne777@theninthgate:~$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glx nvidia-xconfig nvidia-settings
[sudo] password for throne777:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nvidia-glx : Depends: xorg-video-abi-6.0 or
xserver-xorg-core (< 2:1.7.7) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages:'(
Yes, nvidia dkms/module-assistant is broken for backports kernel.
You will have to download the driver from the nvidia website and install it:
See this thread http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ed/page/2/ (starting with post #27) for how to do it.
Your architecture may be different, and your Nvidia card may be different. Use
lspci -knnto determine which nvidia card you have, and use that to search for the correct driver on the nvidia site.
hth
Yes, nvidia dkms/module-assistant is broken for backports kernel.
You will have to download the driver from the nvidia website and install it:
See this thread http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ed/page/2/ (starting with post #27) for how to do it.Your architecture may be different, and your Nvidia card may be different. Use
lspci -knnto determine which nvidia card you have, and use that to search for the correct driver on the nvidia site.
hth
The command for 'gdm' doesn't work because Statler doesn't use gdm anymore (unless I'm mistaken). Regardless, it doesn't work 
Anyone know what to change the command to?
Try
sudo service slim stop
That worked. Enter next round of errors 
First the installer complained about some nouveau (sp?) file, and then added a file to disable it (the file was: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable.conf). Then rebooted. I guess the file worked because my resolution went to 800 x 600 with a flashing mouse.
So tried to install again, then ran into the next error: 'Unable to find kernel source tree for currently running kernel'
Now what?
Install kernel headers
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Or you can install module-assistant and run
sudo m-a prepare
&
sudo m-a update
^ Installing nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx with module-assistant or dkms against backports kernel is broken.
Downloading and installing the driver from the nvidia website is the only working option left.
Dont know about more recent drivers.
hth
Install kernel headers
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Oooh, yay. That did the trick
For those running the latest Statler image and having problems installing the NVIDIA driver, I've just written a tutorial to run you through installation.
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/168224/#p168224
Hope people find it helpful. Feels nice to give back for a change :-)
nvidia-glx just arrived in debian backports
milo@crunchbang:~$ apt-cache policy nvidia-glx
nvidia-glx:
Installato: (nessuno)
Candidato: 280.13.really.275.36-1~bpo60+1
Tabella versione:
280.13.really.275.36-1~bpo60+1 0
550 http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports/non-free i386 Packages
195.36.31-6 0
200 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/non-free i386 Packages
milo@crunchbang:~$
I found this bash script, and work perfectly on #!
http://unixmen.com/download/doc_downloa … an-squeeze
#!/bin/bash
# NVIDIA-Installer-Squeeze
# Enrique Molina
#
# GNU Public License V.3
if [ $USER != root ]; then
echo "¡Is necessary be root!"
exit 0
fi
echo "[Add Repository] [Please Wait]"
sleep 2
echo "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "[Update Repository]"
sleep 2
aptitude update
aptitude safe-upgrade
echo "[Installing Nvidia-Kernel-Module]"
sleep 2
VERSION=`uname -r`
aptitude install nvidia-kernel-$VERSION nvidia-glx
aptitude install nvidia-xconfig
nvidia-xconfig
echo "[Installing Nvidia-Settings]"
sleep 2
aptitude install nvidia-settings
echo "[Is necessary reboot to apply the changes]"
echo -n "[Do you want reboot now {y/n}]: " ; read var
case $var in
y)
reboot
;;
n)
exit
esacsu
chmod +x nvidia-installer-squeeze.sh
./nvidia-installer-squeeze.sh
Bye
Last edited by ShadowX (2011-12-27 16:51:19)
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