Hi I have an old Viglen IX2100 server that I have folding on the CPU, but would like to get the graphics going as well. I have fitted a Geforce GTX 460 card, but at present this is not being detected by the Debian 7.7 OS. I have checked in the Bios and there is a setting for dual graphics which is enabled, so from what I can see it should detect the card, but it isn't. I have added the wheezy-backports repository and run the nvidia-detect script which does not find the card, so any help anyone can give would be much appreciated. Thanks.
What does the command lspci say? That will list all PCI (and PCIe) devices that the system can detect, whether or not it has a driver for it. The graphics hardware should appear in the list, as so: Code: blacklaw@trioptimum:~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Root Complex [snip stuff] 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Trinity [Radeon HD 7660D] [snip more stuff] If it doesn't appear in lspci, then it ain't there - regardless of what the BIOS might say about its status.
Hi Gareth Thanks for the response but I have managed to get the card found ok now. I have now added the wheezy-updates repo and installed the nvidia-glx drivers. All went ok with the install but if I add the card as another folding slot I get errors saying "Unknown_enum" which I have seen before and which I think points to the drivers. I have looked at the page at http://lubos.rendek.org/nvidia-geforce-driver-installation-on-debian-wheezy-linux When I reach the Xorg part the terminal does not find Xorg.conf so I think that is where things are perhaps going wrong. Looking at http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/nvidia.htmI think I should i try the the section under install, your thoughts are welcomed and thanks.
