random quirkyness
Hi all,
I'm still trying to adjust from Gentoo's way of doing things (do it manually) to debian's (apt-something) way. So far everything has been great, but i'm having trouble finding docs on a couple of issues I'm having. Both of them seem related to modules.
First one is with the nvidia driver. It seems like everytime my debian box is rebooted, I have to re-apt-get nvidia-glx before I can use xorg. Also, GDM doesn't seem to like my 1440x900 (widescreen) resolution and I can't seem to do anything about it other than just not use GDM (not that ditching it is a big deal).
The other issue is that I have two soundcards. That in itself isn't a problem, but the it is a problem with the way debian apparently handles them, which seems to be the most random thing I've ever seen. When it boots up, it picks one or the other so sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I can run alsa-conf to get it to use the correct one, but it's annoying doing it every time, especially when having to apt-get nvidia-glx after rebooting also.
I never had these issues with Gentoo, and I don't understand why I'm having them with debian yet. Hopefully somebody here can point me in the right direction to fix these? Is there some debian specific tools for dealing with modules and hardware detection?
Thanks in advance!
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