On 02/26/2012 12:47 AM, kristen wrote: Hi Kristen > On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 20:52 -0900, kristen wrote:
> I thought I might mention that today I fixed my graphics problem. Not > that 'I' fixed it, I only found how to fix it. > > My graphics card is an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (Mac Edition) and requires a > kernel loaded firmware. It seems that such firmware is provided by a > repository which is 'non-free'. It also appears that my default Debian > install does not include such a repository. After hours of reading web > pages via a search I found where Debian keeps it's repository info and I > was able to add this repository in. After using this thing called > 'aptitude' I was able to install the firmware. A reboot later as a new > kernel was installed all appears well. You might want to read the social contract [1] (and the Debian Free Software Guidelines) to learn about why that is not in the default Debian install and resides in non-free. Note that you can also find non-official images that do include the non-free firmware [2]. > I guess I have much to learn about Debian. Especially your package > management system. And whatever aptitude is (a package manager I know). There are a couple of choices for the package manager. synaptic is the one with a graphical interface. aptitude and apt-get are comparable to yum, but for Debian packages. dpkg is in the same way comparable to rpm. aptitude is usually preferred to apt-get as for most things it's more intuitive. > I think this is going to be a long road for me.. *sigh* We are here to show you the short cuts and make it a fun and rewarding journey :-) Cheers Luk [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract [2] http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f49ec09.1020...@debian.org
