Adam Bower wrote:

Thats your problem then not having the right (X4.x) version of X windows, things to check are

1. which release of Debian
2. can you install different versions of X in the newer releases?
3. have you got the correct sources.list
4. have you run apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade etc...

1. Woody 2. I am now doing an upgrade of w-window-system, see 3 and 4. 3. I didn't have "contrib" on one of my sources. I'll rerun update and upgrade. 4. Yes, I did recently, but see 3.

Craig wrote:

Simple... get the nvidia-glx-src and nvidia-kernel-src compiled (providing that in mind that you have left the kernel source in /usr/src/linux since it will build against your kernel)

Then in XF86Config:

Add the line in Section "Module"

   Load    "glx"

And then:

In Section "Device" change:

Driver "nv"

to

Driver "nvidia"

Restart 'X' and you should be on your way.

I've been running xf86config and it has been generating a completely incompatible file with such sections as "drivers", and X hasn't liked it at all so I've been writing one out manually with section headings it can deal with. Having old version of xwindows explains a lot.

Thanks, I'll let you know how it goes when xwindow has rocketed forward into the 21st century. Jenny.