On Thu 02 Feb 2012 at 12:57:50 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:28:55 +0000, lee wrote: > > > Nowadays, you don´t really need to do anything ... > > No? Nothing? Really? I mean, really?
Yes, really. It's such an improvement on the past. Nouveau gets the console resolution right and gives a nice framebuffer. Start X and it just figures out everything. Then there's KMS. We're spoiled. > You do have to do many things now that were not needed in the old days. > For instance, try to install the closed source nvidia driver while having > nuvó installed. In the old times, editing one line at xorg.conf was all > to get the driver loaded. Now you can be even forced to uninstall one set > of the drivers to use the other. And debugging has turned very > difficult... Sounds dreadful! I'm thankful to be among the 95% of PC users who do not need 3D acceleration. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120202185947.GH917@desktop