Greetings, On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Nicola Busanello <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to have a Debian live system recognize video boards at boot, > optionally configuring the system to use proprietary drivers. > > As far as I understand, proprietary drivers (say nvidia and fglrx) > cannot be installed in chroot, because: > - they conflict with each other (-glx packages, mostly) > - there could be more than one version available (e.g. nvidia has > many legacy versions) > - nvidia/fglrx install a blacklist for free driver modules, which > could instead be the right choice (e.g. ATI cards prior to r500 > are not supported by fglrx) > > I know this is what I should expect from using non-free stuff and in > fact I knew I was diggin a minefield right from the start. > I want to do it the same because what I want is to enable completely > live-based lan-parties for some gamers to gather, start one machine (the > netboot server with the live image) and then just boot their gaming > machines from the net into a fully 3D-capable desktop and play, Debian way! > I hope one day all of this will be just bad memories, with nouveau and ati > being fast and feature complete enough. > > In the meantime I ask for your help :) > Can someone point me to a solution? >
First, I know little about 3D things. But if the add on things you want are not available from a package repository and are available as a .deb you could try adding them via chroot_local_packages http://live.debian.net/manual/en/html/live-manual.html#404 > Hope I've been clear enough and thanks in advance for you time and effort, > Debian live already is such a wonderful tool! > > > bye, > Nicola. > -- > "A sensible man knows you can not please everybody. A wise man knows you can > not > please anybody." -- > Anonymous > > http://www.ebruni.it/docs/pippolone196/index.htm > GPGkey 0xCED2206B Linux counter registered user n° 356433 > http://www.no1984.org/ http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi;[email protected]
