Envy – ATI and NVIDIA drivers installation made easy
Posted by Admin on August 7th, 2007
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Envy Features
- detect the model of your graphic card (ATI and Nvidia cards are supported). However “Manual installation” is also available
- download the right version of the proprietary driver for your ATI or Nvidia card from ATI or Nvidia’s websites
- handle the dependencies (compilers, OpenGL, etc.) (according to your OS version and kernel) required to build the module
- install/uninstall the driver
- set up your xorg.conf (i.e. the configuration file of the Xserver) for you (according to your system specifications)
- restart the Xserver for you (if you wish so) (this feature is available only in the textual interface)
Install Envy in Debian Etch
You need to download envy latest version from here using the following command
#wget http://albertomilone.com/ubuntu/nvidia/scripts/envy_0.9.4-0ubuntu4_all.deb
Now you need to install envy_0.9.4-0ubuntu4_all.deb package using the following command
#dpkg -i envy_0.9.4-0ubuntu4_all.deb
If you get any error Make sure that all the dependencies were installed by typing
#apt-get install -f
Launch Envy’s GUI by typing the following command
su
envy -g
If you need to use Envy’s textual interface you will have to type the following command
su
envy -t
WARNING: you will have to remove the driver you installed with Envy before upgrading Debian to a newer release (e.g. upgrading Debian Etch to Debian Lenny)
November 17th, 2008 at 12:25 am
excellent driver! my installation lasted only a few minutes and I’m getting 1280×1024 and 1440×900 in twinview. thanks so much for posting