On Mar 13, 2013 1:53 PM, "Chris Knadle" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 07:51:30, Jack Chastain wrote: > > On Mar 12, 2013 5:09 PM, "Chris Knadle" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 10:31:10, Jack Chastain wrote: > > > > On Mar 12, 2013 12:25 AM, "Chris Knadle" <[email protected]> > > [...] > > > The "vesa" driver is the best temporary fallback for Nvidia cards. > > > The other thing you might try is the 'nouveau' driver. [The > > > nouveau driver is known to (mostly) work for the GeForce FX 5200.] > > > > How do I get this in? apt=get some nouveau package? Still a little > > clueless, but getting pretty good at wielding a sledgehammer at least. > > On Debian I installed 'xserver-xorg-video-nouveau' and also made sure that the > kernel was built with the CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU=m (module) option. [You can > check this via 'fgrep -i nouveau /boot/config-$(uname -r)'] I don't know if > Ubuntu 12 has the nouveau module necessary, so that's how to check. >
Thanks to the work load and vry little sleep preparing for it, I didn't get to try this yet. I may give it a shot tonight or later. the new laptop is due Friday - may make all this moot, but Ido want to know more about what I am doing - a hopeless taks really. > > Still pretty clueless on this stuff. > > Maybe I should just put Solaris on (*ducks*) > > Out of curiosity, is kind of thing easier on Solaris? > > Hehe- no. It's just that in Solaris, I never get out of CLI so I know far more about it. Sol-11 is reportedly Linux-like to the point that it probably just is. I haven't checked. If I correctly understand the folks playing with it, it even uses RPM-like packages, etc. JC
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