On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 02:01:25PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 09:44 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > I have an HP Compaq Presario CQ60 laptop. Having no high-speed > > connection, > > I have installed Debian 5.0.2 from the dvd set. This gives me kernel· > > 2.6.26-2-686. The Presario has an nvidia chipset (see output of lspci
[...] Update: I took the laptop to London where I have broadband, downloaded the nvidia drivers and things got better. Since then I've upgraded to squeeze, now with 2.6.30. All's well (except for gnumeric -- but that is another story, and very irritating as I cannot access any of my gnumeric files any more). > > I'm really upset with the all around crap handling nvidia has given > Linux in the last couple of years. Sure, they were first out the door > with some decent video drivers for Linux, but that was 10 years ago. > Today, their drivers tend to be stale, poorly maintained, and buggy at > best (hell, antialiasing doesn't even work right in their current > drivers). > > If you want decent support, avoid nvidia. > Thanks for that advice, though as I usually buy whatever is available cheap, I often don't have any choice. It's a pity to see a firm that tried to accept the presence of Linux letting things slip, though. richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
