On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 02:30:34PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > First, there isn't an Ethernet card Linux can't find these days, so that's > > kind of an empty argument. > > Bull, Paul. Want me to mail you the one that's useless for me since it > wasn't detected and the documentation to get it going was beyond confusing? > It's best use right now is a paper weight.
Did you buy it knowing you were going to use it under linux? If so, it's you problem. If not, the answer's simple--don't give them any more money and tell us, so we don't give them money until they rectify the situation. > > Second, so you go spend five minutes on nvidia.com downloading the drivers, > > and another five to install them. Big fat hairy deal. If you're so pent > > up > > about it, why not go make your own apt-source and slap it into your own > > unofficial/non-free? > > *looks at the ATI card in his machine* > > What good will those nVidia drivers do me? Okay. :%s/nvidia/ati/g > Have you built the ATI drivers > from scratch? No, but the driver and module source are in non-free, and this page: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html#install lists 4 seperate ways to build the module, none of which seem difficult. Sub kernel-source for linux-headers and it should all work smoothly. > If you're saying 5 minutes I'm betting you're talking out your > posterior if you claim you have. It wasn't even 5 minutes the first time I > did it *following a well written, step-by-step guide on the web!* It was more > like an hour. Subsequent installs when I knew the basic process droped to, > maybe... 30 minutes. It seems you're doing something wrong then. It should take about 5 commands, and take less than 7 minutes (I just did it while writing this email). However, you can't be using xorg 7 as fglrx-driver currently depends on <6.9.99 -- but that'll be cleared up quickly. Two commands after it's built--one 'dpkg -i', one 'modprobe'. > Same drivers installed on Mepis, one mouseclick, not even 5 minutes. And > Mepis is Debian based so there's nothing there that Debian couldn't do if it > wanted to be more than a badge of pride and actually attempt to address the > userbase every once and a while. They do address their userbase--the people who want to follow the social contract. They also allow the most common 'non-free' things to be done easily. What more do you want? -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Did YOU find a DIGITAL WATCH in YOUR box of VELVEETA? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
