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Dealing with Debian Squeeze and Nvidia drivers

Arkold Thos — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:14:42 +0000

Heya, happy new year , for start with great stuff this year, I just Debian again after two years of using Kubuntu/Windows-lately, and I had few problems installing Nvidia drivers, with the repository drivers, so I wrote a little guide of how to make it with Nvidia site drivers – this guide is meant for working with 64 bits operating system and that you have closed the X system.

Downloading the needed stuff, nvidia driver, the kernel headers, changing permissions and installing it
wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/190.53/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.53-pkg2.run
apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.53-pkg2.run
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.53-pkg2.run

And depending of what desktop manager do you use, you will start it (gdm, kdm, w/e)
/etc/init.d/kdm start or restart (depends if it is running)
/etc/init.d/gdm start or restart (depends if it is running)

If it doesn’t run, just run
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Making volume keys work with KMix

Arkold Thos — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:41:36 +0000

I think that I am not the only one who bought one of this kind of keyboards and wish to have them working under Linux, Ubuntu do it without any modification as far I know, Kubuntu too, as I know there are extra tools to do it with a GUI, but I’ll teach you how that tools work . Tested on Debian Lenny and Sid.

Requirements

Have a keyboard with multimedia keys, as volume up & down
Have x11-utils package installed
Have super user access
The K Environment
KMix application installed

Tips

This can work with anything that runs on the X server, but you need do extra editing, so have fun at that

We will use an application called xev that is into x11-utils, first of all, we need to know the keycode of the keys we want to configure, so we do the following thing.

$ xev

Then a window showing many text will appear, however, we click on JUST the keys we want to configure, in mine case it show off it when I clicked that keys (volume up&down). The keycodes are in bold.

The increase volume button

KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
root 0x8a, subw 0×0, time 1517838800, (-479,599), root:(207,626),
state 0×10, keycode 176 (keysym 0×0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0×2a00001,
root 0×8a, subw 0×0, time 1517838951, (-479,599), root:(207,626),
state 0×10, keycode 176 (keysym 0×0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: FalseKeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,

The decrease volume button

root 0x8a, subw 0×0, time 1517844324, (252,33), root:(938,60),
state 0×10, keycode 174 (keysym 0×0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0×2a00001,
root 0×8a, subw 0×0, time 1517844482, (252,33), root:(938,60),
state 0×10, keycode 174 (keysym 0×0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

Then we create ~/.kde/Autostart/keycodes and we put in this (editing to match with your keycodes).

#!/bin/sh
#file to map special keys.
#File location: ~/.kde/Autostart
#File Name:keycodes

xmodmap -e ‘keycode 174=F21′ #voldown
xmodmap -e ‘keycode 176=F22′ #volup

#Abrimos kmix y dejamos que xbindkeys sirva
kmix

#Se abre xbindkeys para enlazar las teclas de acceso rapido con los programas
xbindkeys

Then we edit ~/.xbindkeysrc (if it doesn’t exists, we need to create it) and we add the following lines

#Volume decrease
“dcop kmix Mixer0 decreaseVolume 0″
F21

#Volume increase
“dcop kmix Mixer0 increaseVolume 0″
F22

Installing fglrx (ATI) drivers under Debian

Arkold Thos — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:02:59 +0000

First useful post that will be translated from Spanish to English, from mine old blog.

Requirements

Have an ATi card
Xorg 7.1 (not sure if 7.2 is compatible, I am not using Linux at the moment)
Have super user access
Non-Free and contrib repositories enabled
Have kernel headers installed

Recommendations

Do _NOT_ hand edit the Xorg.conf file if is not needed and without any reason, this could break your X environment
Install fglrx-control package, it contains the ATi Catalyst Control Panel
Be sure of having an upgraded operating system, this could be done with apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
Backup this file /etc/X11/Xorg.conf before doing anything

This is quite easy, and I’ll explain what the following commands will do, first of all, we install module-assistant, fglrx-driver and the fglrx-kernel packages, then we use module-assistant to compile and install the fglrx driver and to finish, we use aticonfig command for configuring the Xorg configuration

# apt-get install module-assistant fglrx-driver fglrx-kernel-src# module-assistant auto-install fglrx-kernel-src# aticonfig --initial

After this steps, reboot your graphical environment and you will have 3D acceleration. If this didn’t work replace/etc/X11/Xorg.conf with the backup that you have made. Tested with a RX1550 on Debian Lenny.

Drivers de fglrx (ATI) bajo Debian

Arkold Thos — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:34:29 +0000

Algo muy claro es que todos queremos aprovechar nuestro hardware al maximo. Claro, en la mayoria de los casos ocupamos usar controladores que son de fuentes cerrada, pero en cierto modo son los mejores para sacar jugo a nuestra tarjeta ATi, usando cosas como Compiz-Fusion, Quake, entre otros juegos, en mi caso tengo una ATI RX1550 256MB que me va de perlas y explicare como hacer lo mismo con la tuya. Toda esta guia requiere permisos de administracion, osea, estar ocupando la cuenta de ‘root’.

Antes que nada, hay que agregar los repositorios non-free en nuestro /etc/apt/sources.list.

En mi caso ocupo Debian Lenny y los repositorios por defecto son:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main

deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main

Y el que tengo son los siguientes donde añado los repositorios contrib y non-free, pero en la guia solo ocupamos paquetes de el repositorio non-free, el que contiene aplicaciones propietarias y que no son de software libre.

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free

y en la consola ejecutamos la actualizacion y instalacion de los paquetes que usaremos (debes de tener los kernel ‘headers’ instalados) ejecutando las siguientes lineas en la consola.

apt-get update apt-get install module-assistant fglrx-driver fglrx-kernel-src

Y usamos el module-assistant para compilar el controlador e instalarlo
module-assistant auto-install fglrx-kernel-src

Despues, para que se configure el /etc/Xorg/X11.conf
aticonfig --initial

Y tambien podemos instalar el panel de administracion con

apt-get install fglrx-control

Despues de esto reiniciamos las X, y la aceleracion 3D y demas deben de funcionar muy bien. Si no, ve la guia de compatibilidad. Espero y halla sido de ayuda, cualquier duda ponerla aqui con la informacion de tu sistema.