[Cialug] debian 3.1, and back to Gentoo

[Theron Conrey]

If you get that hair again and want to make nvidia work in that senario 
there are simple instructions at http://www.cialug.org/ewiki/ for making 
that work.

-Theron



Alan Maupin wrote:

>Where I went wrong was making the assumption that I could administer a
>Debian install without RTFM, based on previous Slackware, Mandrake, Fedora
>and Gentoo experience.  Thanks for the heads up on "apt" Joe.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
>Of D. Joe Anderson
>Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 8:49 PM
>To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>Subject: Re: [Cialug] debian 3.1, and back to Gentoo
>
>On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 08:06:56PM -0500, Alan Maupin wrote:
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>>First off, the default installation did not recognize the fact that I was
>>running a mainstream three year old GeForce Ti 4800 - 64 MB video card
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>>a 19 inch Viewsonic monitor, and would only allow me a max resolution of
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>800
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>>x 600.  Next stop, Nvidia.com to download the latest Linux drivers.  After
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>a
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>>little while jerking around with the Nvidia drivers I decided that Debian
>>was probably going to cost me nearly as much time in configuration as a
>>custom compiled Gentoo install and thus have decided to scratch Debian and
>>return to Gentoo.
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>Maybe.
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>But going to nvidia was probably where you took a wrong turn:
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>$ apt-cache search nvidia
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>$ apt-cache search nvidia
>nvtv - tool to control TV chips on NVidia cards under Linux
>nvidia-cg-toolkit - NVIDIA Cg Toolkit installer
>nvidia-kernel-common - NVIDIA binary kernel module common files
>nvidia-settings - Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
>nvidia-glx - NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver
>nvidia-glx-dev - NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver development files
>nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-386 - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux
>2.4.27-2-386
>nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-586tsc - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux
>2.4.27-2-586tsc
>nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-686 - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux
>2.4.27-2-686
>nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-686-smp - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux
>2.4.27-2-686-smp
>nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-k6 - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux
>2.4.27-2-k6
>nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-k7 - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux
>2.4.27-2-k7
>nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-k7-smp - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux
>2.4.27-2-k7-smp
>nvidia-kernel-source - NVIDIA binary kernel module source
>nvidia-kernel-2.4.18-1-686-smp - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux
>2.4.18-1-686-smp
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>>It is my opinion that between the extremes of a plug and play installation
>>like Mandriva, and the customised (compiled) installation of Gentoo, there
>>lays Debian.  
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>That's probably pretty fair.  Where exactly it sits on that
>continuum, though, is probably something of a religious issue,
>so I'll leave it at that for the moment ;-)
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