Got all the way through with slightly different hardware this time, it didn't miss anything and it looks great! Typing this from icedove, now that I know they renamed it!
So, I want my NVidia.I did the non-free sources. When I go to investigate getting a NVidia driver, <http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers> I see this:
Steps 3 and 4 are done for good. However, you'll have to repeat step 2 in certain situations. If you don't realize such a situation happens, X will fail to start. You can take two approaches with this: either remember when this will happen and try to prevent it, or remember to come back here when your X fails to start. Either way, you're not done for life. If X fails to start because of this, you can again revert step 4 (by choosing a free X driver again) and redo it when you want to retry using the/nvidia/driver for X.
Me no like, and I am reconsidering putting in the driver. Ubuntu and others do not have this problem. Mageia installs the NVidia driver by default.
OTOH, how much better is the non-free? Your thoughts? Remember, this is still a practice install, we can do whatever we want.
On 05/22/2013 11:53 AM, Mike wrote:
On 05/21/2013 09:46 PM, Silas Lang wrote:Debian: very tempting, but missed some hardware and a bit slowPrepare to un DFSG your debian box. It's probably appears slow due to the free Nvidia driver. Add "non-free" to your main repository in sources.lst, apt-get update, apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree, reboot. Enjoy the life of proprietary video drivers. This may also account for you other non detected hardware.MikeTo unsubscribe send to ncolug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field.
