[Sussex] Debian install ?

[Geoff Teale]

John,

Afer you've built and installed the new nvidia drivers do make sure you
manually change the driver in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file from 'nv'
to 'nvidia' - the xf86config program doesn't know about the proprietary
NVidia drivers.

BTW Dominic, Do you know something about the Graphics card market I
don't?  Last I looked the Radeon was an ATI chipset :)

-- Geoff


On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 23:18, Rheille wrote:
> John,
> 
> If you know the URL of the file, you could use wget.  Its quite easy,
> but you need to know the url of the file you are looking for.
> 
> And to browse the web to find it... Theres always lynx!!!
> 
> On the X drivers point.  Try specifying 'vesa' as the driver (its
> generic and it worked for ny Nvidia Radion card...)
> 
> Dominic
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sussex-admin at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:sussex-admin at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of John D.
> Sent: 29 August 2003 21:37
> To: Sussex
> Subject: [Sussex] Debian install ?
> 
> 
> So,
> 
> As it stands, I seem to have managed to install the debian woody base
> system.
> 
> I can't get X installed, as it would appear that woody doesn't have
> drivers 
> for my nvidia GeForce 4 MX420 graphics card.
> 
> I get the message 
> 
> (EE) No devices detected
> 
> Fatal Server Error
> No Screens Found
> 
> then theres a bit about bug reporting followed by
> 
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
> 
> Now Ive got a link for up to date nvidia drivers, but with no X, no
> browser 
> (and I don't know how to burn cd's with linux anyway!)
> 
> So, is there a way of getting the updated nvidia drivers without a
> browser or 
> getting a newer version of X or perhaps because I have managed to get
> the 
> base system installed, is there a way to get an updated distro i.e.
> Sarge ?
> 
> Any idea's much appreciated
> 
> regards
> 
> John D.
> 
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