On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 01:33:44PM +1300, Vivian Stewart wrote: > I have a problem with debian3 and that is, that I want a desktop > environment where USB keyboard & mouse, Easy. Install hotplug and let it handle it for you. > soundblaster Live, Again, easy. Use the emu10k1 driver. > Geforce3 hardware acceleration Yuck, sure, use nvidia's non-Free drivers. Get the nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src packages and read their documentation. > all work And doing this seems to be a mission. especially USB > keyboard & mouse. Not at all. In fact, you shouldn't need to do anything at all, if you read the install guide. > the install kernel is lame and Uh, again, read the install guide. > changing kernels and insterting the right modules seems to always Um...Have you read the install guide at all? It details exactly how to get a new kernel, and tells you why you need that. > end up with me being able to get into X, which I wish it didn't, but > then not having keyboard or mouse input so ? Um, OK. > linux finds the USB devices but doesn't use them this is weird to me. I really don't think you've looked into this very hard at all. My advice would be a) read the install guide, b) read the docs at http://newbiedoc.sf.net/, c) read the docs at http://qref.sf.net/, d) install kernel-image-2.4.18-386, hotplug and discover e) use the nv driver with X for now. It's certainly possible to get Debian working with your hardware, it's not even that hard. You will need to do some work though. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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