On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 11:43:26AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > David Krider wrote: > > I was content to run stable on my desktop, even just using KDE 2.2, but > > XFree86 4.1 doesn't know about GeForce4 cards. So I just went ahead and > > took my machine to unstable. However, `dpkg-reconfigure xsever-xfree86' > > can't give me a good conf file. Why is this? > > Probably because you don't have read-edid, mdetect, and discover > installed. With those packages it can do hardware autodetection, without > it cannot. Do use the autodetect thingy, post-install: # apt-get install discover mdetect read-edid # dpkg -P --force-depends xserver-xfree86 xfree86-common # apt-get install xserver-xfree86 xfree86-common The purge step may no longer be neccessary under > woody, I'm not sure. Also, you CAN use your geforce under woody. You have three choices: 1) Get X4.2 from http://people.debian.org/~blade/woody/; te 'nv' driver should work fine. 2) Use the 'vesa' driver. It's slow and nasty, but it should work. 3) Get nvidia's non-Free drivers, which sill support your geforce4 under X4.1. Just install nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src and follow the instructions CAREFULLY. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: NASA codes 64 Vauxhall Cross Becker genetic Steve Case
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