Hello, all. I've been an Ubuntu user for quite awhile. Linux has
been my only OS for over a year now (and I've been using it on and off
longer than that). I've recently gotten the itch to switch to Debian.
Ubuntu has worked quite well for me, but with everything that is
going on with Unity and current development, eventually I have a
feeling I'm going to become slightly annoyed with what they push out
in new releases.
Also, I've always respected the Debian project and what they are
about. Just makes me feel all warm and tingly inside. Today I tried
to take the plunge. I downloaded the stable version (Squeeze), and
tried to give it a go. The install went smoothly, but I have noticed
two things that I am going to have to solve. The first one is the
sound on my machine. I get no sound until I run alsamixer and turn up
the speaker. Once done with that, my laptop speakers function quite
well. However, I also have a set up wireless speakers that can
operate via a Bluetooth connection or via the provided dongle. I
usually use the dongle as it's always plugged into my USB hub and just
makes it a lot easier. I can not get this to work under Debian. If I
select the device in alsamixer, the only setting available to me is
PCM and even though it is the selected device, I still get sound out
of my laptop speakers.
Secondly, I'm going to have to figure out exactly how to install the
nVidia drivers for my video card. I've seen that I can do it manually
or with the non-free repository. I haven't tried the first method,
but installing nvidia-glx just seemed to cause me problems (I think
this may have been the wrong package).
Anyway, any help would be much appreciated. Also, let me say that so
far, everyone in the Debian community seems to be a little more
friendly then the Ubuntu crowd. I've been in that community for
awhile and many people can be snobs which don't really help to further
anything! ...of course, I guess you can get that type anywhere you
go.
Thanks!
Noah Duffy
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