Re: Installing xserver
Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com> writes:
> I installed a woody base system and then install the xserver-svga
> required by my nVidia GeForce3 card and a window manager.
That's from XFree86 3.3.6, which is still needed for some cards that
aren't supported in 4.x. You almost certainly want xserver-xfree86
instead.
> My current configuration has a vertRefresh of 48-120 Hz, but the
> debian file ends up with 50-85Hz.
Just fix it in the file.
> Other oddities. Nowhere in the device section or elsewhere does the
> configuration see my nVidia card and what should be its its nv
> driver. Instead, the graphic card's name is generic and the driver is
> simply VGA2. I assumed that the nv driver was compiled in the stock
> 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel.
(1) It's not particularly a kernel issue; (2) the older X server is
probably compiled with a minimum set of drivers. Your kernel should
be fine, but changing to the newer X server would help.
(That having been said, you are aware of the difference between the
'nv' and non-free 'nvidia' drivers? You need the latter for
accelerated 3-D support, and that requires some kernel support.)
> Should I expect the debian xserver configuration to be close enough
> to the RedHat so that I can use one to some extent as a model for
> changing the other?
Yes, they both use XFree86. If you have a working configuration under
Red Hat you can probably come very close to having something that
works by just copying over the XF86Config file.
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