From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: joy Subject: Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:47:30 +0530 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <405FAC4A.1000609@sancharnet.in> References: Reply-To: gracecott@sancharnet.in Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii" To: Karthik Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Karthik Vishwanath wrote: >Hello, > >I recently installed the 3.0 debian linux (on an AMD 1500 pc) and am >learning the ways of debian packaging. I obtained a netinst iso, burned >the image and successfully rebooted back into debian. Next, I used tasksel >get all the packages that seemed relevant. Somehow I missed choosing >XFree86 (I think), initially. dselect along with the debian reference >manual helped me fix that (by installing x-window-system-core, >xfree86-common, etc). During the setup process I selected GeForce as my >video card. startx did work - XFree86.0.log told me the error was: (EE) >No devices detected. Googling for "GeForce4 debian configuration" gave me >hits - the first one indicated that I must: > > I see that you are using a Geforce 4 in a debian woody system. the Xfree86 along with the stable distro does not support the GF4. so you better get the latest nvidia drivers for linux from nvidia.com and install it. that should( no, will ;-) clear up your problem. >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs