Re:

[Brandon Richards <hobbes34@gmail.com>]

Darryl Pierce wrote:

> On 5/13/05, Brandon Richards <hobbes34@gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
> > > So, when you installed Debian on your Sony it just wouldn't go into X?
> > > What did you do in order to configure it or figure out the problem?
> > > What video hardware does the laptop have and what video server did you
> > > select?
> > >
> > >      
> > It just wouldnt go into X!  I tried everything I could think of to try.
> > I went to Nvidia's site, downloaded the drivers for it, recompiled the
> > kernel, everything.
> > It actually has an Nvidia GeForce 420 go graphics chip with 32 MBs of
> > RAM.  I tried gnome and KDE and xdm. Those  were the only video servers
> > the installation package gave me.
> >    
>
> Those aren't video servers. I meant what did you configure
> xserver-xfree86 to use as the video driver for your hardware. My
> laptop also has the GeForce in it and worked just fine with both the
> "nv" driver module but even better with the nVidia specific ones from
> Debian (I'm using testing).
>
>  
i configured xserver-xfree86 to use just about everything i can think of 
to use.  I used 'nv', Nvidia, Nvidia drivers from their website.  Which 
GeForce does urs have though?  That matters a lot I have found.  I try 
to play a game on windows called war of warcraft and cant get inside the 
cities cuz when i go inside the picture goes all pixelated(sp?) on me.  
I was trying to use the stable version of debian though.  It didnt work 
at all.  I might try the unstable version here soon(Ran out of cds).  I 
have tried about every distrobution of linux and I think I like 
slackware the best.  However, I just don't know because I havent gotten 
debian to run right yet.  When I get some money to buy some cds I will 
probably try to put debian unstable on laptop.

Thanks for everything,

Brandon