Re: Towards an instructive minimalist intall of Openbox
On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Lu, 11 aug 14, 18:47:40, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> >
> > IIRC, the base install (terminal only) installed the default video
> > driver for my nVidia-based card -- nouveau. That was before I did
>
> There's a 'nouveau' kernel module and a 'nouveau' X driver, installed
> with package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau.
As I recall -- my notes aren't handy, I never specifically installed
ANY video drivers. The installer must have taken care of it.
> > anything involving X. After I had everything set up the way I
> > wanted and working, several months later I installed the
> > proprietary nVidia driver replacing nouveau.
>
> Have you used X before that? If I'm curious enough I'll try to
> reproduce this in a chroot or virtual machine.
Do you mean during the install? No. Up until X and Openbox were
installed and configured, I installed everything from the terminal.
After the GUI was set up, I did the rest of the install from a virtual
terminal.
Do you mean since I've been using Linux? Going on 15 years now. Yes.
Of course. But this is the first time I've done such a custom install
using a window manager only instead of a full desktop environment.
FYI: The system boots to a login terminal, and once logged in, startx
is used to run X and Openbox.
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