On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 09:26:48AM -0500, 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. What does this mean? A working one, you mean? > Why is this? I have a dual-Athlon if it > makes a difference. I was finally able to create a good file with X's > xf86config, but it doesn't provide for automatic configuration of a lot > of modules. (Maybe this is a good thing; maybe those modules are > screwing me up.) I'd post my log file, but who wants to sort through > that? The only indication that something's wrong is that it says X > segfaulted at the end. There are ZERO "EE" lines in the file. How > useless is that? > > I figure I'm not the only one with a GeForce4 on this list. Am I alone > in not getting this to work with debconf under unstable? How have others > gotten this configured? Lots of people use geforce4s with Debian, including under woody (see my other mail). > While I'm at it, can anyone point me to a FM where I can read up on what > it takes to use the nvidia kernel and glx packages that are in unstable? Just install nvidia-glx-src and nvidia-kernel-src and read their documentation. The step-by-step instructions are extremely easy to follow. > I'm not using them. They're not even installed. Maybe that's my whole > problem? Almost certainly not. -- 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: Vince Foster cryptographic president Adriatic cracking MD2
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