[Liverpool] Debian

[David Watson]

On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 20:51 +0000, Tony Burrows wrote:
> I know we've got some Debian users out there.  Thought I'd join you so I 
> installed it today from a DVD set I got a few months back. (v3.0, though I 
> have the upgrade 3.0r2 CD).  All went well, at first!
> 
> Everything seems to have installed and runs, except for X.  Whenever I start 
> to run it, I get a whole series of error messages.  I've got an NVidia GForce 
> 4 card.  Tried the nv server - it failed.  I couldn't see how to try 
> configuring just X, so went back to base-config and through it all again.  
> Tried the svga driver.  It failed on colour depth (I'd chosen 24 bit).
> 
> Not sure I can face going all the way from the start again.  Is there any 
> (fairly) straightforward way to bring in a server and configure it?
> 

Debian 3.0 ( aka woody) is very old, you could use ubuntu which is
basically debian, but with newer software and far better hardware
detection.  I have plenty of ubuntu cd's, if you want one let me know.

And ignore the unenlightened debian haters. ;-)

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