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The cards need different drivers.

So, login as root and do:

# apt-get remove --purge fglrx-4-3-0


Now the X-server configuration-file must be updated:



XFree86: # mv /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.1st /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

X-Org: # mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf.1st /etc/X11/xorg.conf


In the apropriate file (either /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 or /etc/X11/xorg.conf, depending if you use xf86 or xorg) in section "Device" in the line "driver" change radeon to nv.


If your card is not built in yet, now its time to do so.


After booting you can now install the nvidia-driver
as root:

# update scripts-kanotix
# install-nvidia-debian.sh

The content of the /tmp directory is normally cleaned-up on each boot, so some directories and sockets needed by the X-Server are also deleted.


Normally during the boot-process the script x11-common for X-Org or xfree86-common for XFree86 recreates these things.

Possibly these scripts are not being called during the boot process

you can call

All changes must be done as root.

Enable themes
Currently KDM-themes are not enabled by default in debian.
Add a
UseTheme=true
line in the [X-*-Greeter]-stanza in your /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc file.

Change themes
If enabled, KDM uses its circles theme by default, to change this, just change the line with
Theme=/usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/circles
to
Theme=/usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/<name-of-theme>

Disable Themes
If you want to disable your theme just change back to UseTheme=false

NOTE: You have to restart KDM after you've made changes to the kdmrc.