-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 26 Dec 2003 11:16 pm, csj wrote: > After three days of browsing various leads posted here[1], I > managed to get my spare computer running on linux 2.6 and > nVidia's binary-only video drivers (installed with the help of > the non-free "nvidia-graphics-drivers" packages). > > Everything seems to be functional, including chromium, tuxracer > and armagetron. My only remaining problem is getting the > framebuffer console to work. I can get the console to work if I > don't enable framebuffer at boot time, i.e. if I boot without the > penguin mascot;-). > > Any pointers? FWIW I built my 2.6 kernel using a > framebuffer-capable /boot/config-2.4* saved (with no user-addled > changes) thru "make gconfig". > > [1]e.g. http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html > http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/nvidia-2.6-Debian/index.html
Check out the "known gotchas" section. And only do vesa and vesa-16 in your options: http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt - -- Regards http://www.magicfx.co.uk http://www.suretecsystems.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7MkegNqd7Kng8UoRAooWAJ9iVlGxzUldo6zb0BEYgGZRXNvRsQCg4VfF EX+W2em5obR7NJ3YNRiHOmc= =Js0I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
