NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS?

Dear all, I am planning to buy a new HP notebook. The model that has caught my eyes comes with an "NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS" graphics card. Can any one tell me how well is this graphics card supported under Lenny? Is it possible to have compiz running on this graphics card? I did some search on

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS?

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: Dear all, I am planning to buy a new HP notebook. The model that has caught my eyes comes with an "NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS" graphics card. Can any one tell me how well is this graphics card supported under Lenny? Is it possible to have compiz run

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS?

I did in fact thought of doing this but it is not doable for me. What is the most general way of determining whether a specific piece of hardware is supported by Debian? Things on the web seem quite confusing to me. Thanks. On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS?

Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > I did in fact thought of doing this but it is not doable for me. What is > the most general way of determining whether a specific piece of hardware is > supported by Debian? Things on the web seem quite confusing to me. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the Linux in Debian

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS?

On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 01:29 +0900, Bret Busby wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > > > > > Dear all, > > > > I am planning to buy a new HP notebook. The model that has caught my eyes > > comes with an "NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS" graphics card. Can any one tell me > > how well i

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS?

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > > Dear all, > > I am planning to buy a new HP notebook. The model that has caught my eyes > comes with an "NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS" graphics card. Can any one tell me > how well is this graphics card supported under Lenny? Is it possible to

RE: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

More problems!!! I managed to install what I needed, but it would seem to be malfunctioning, as the folloing commands and output appear to indicate: EXCALIBUR:/home/DRIVER# ndiswrapper -l WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 63: ignoring bad line starting with 'Reading' WARNING: /etc/modprob

Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

On Wednesday 11 March 2009 21:02:42 jwesleycoo...@cox.net wrote: > More problems!!! > > I managed to install what I needed, but it would seem to be malfunctioning, > as the folloing commands and output appear to indicate: > > EXCALIBUR:/home/DRIVER# ndiswrapper -l > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blackli

RE: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

Forgive me, but I have absolutely no prior experience with Linux, and the bulk of my programming experience is in two forms TI-BASIC, which is a high-level language for Texas Instruments made graphing calculators, so I'm not really sure how I would go about doing this... could you possibly be a

Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi John, you inadvertently modified /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, probably by typing apt-get install linus-headers-2.6.26-1-amd64 >> etc/modprobe.d/blacklist or something similar. Just edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist with your favorite editor, delete li

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS?

Nima Azarbayjany writes: > I am planning to buy a new HP notebook.? The model that has caught my > eyes comes with an "NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS" graphics card.? Can any > one tell me how well is this graphics card supported under Lenny?? Poorly, if you want 3D support, as it will require the bina

Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi John, jwesleycoo...@cox.net schrieb: > Forgive me, but I have absolutely no prior experience with Linux, and > the bulk of my programming experience is in two forms TI-BASIC, (...), > so I'm not really sure how I would go about doing this... > co

Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

* jwesleycoo...@cox.net [2009-03-11 20:36:35 -0400]: > Forgive me, but I have absolutely no prior experience with Linux, and the > bulk of my programming experience is in two forms TI-BASIC, which is a > high-level language for Texas Instruments made graphing calculators, so I'm > not really s

Re: Xorg failure

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Robert Black wrote: > Baz wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Baz > bazcis...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> >> >>On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:44 AM, >> wrote: >> >>Funny you should mention i810. I installed it but

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS?

Thanks John for the good news. You mean compiz also runs without problems? Have you used the free drivers or the non-free NVIDIA drivers? On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:27 AM, wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > > > > > Dear all, > > > > I am planning to buy a new HP notebook. T

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS?

Hi Bob, Thanks for the very informative email. I love to learn all this from you nice people. I really hope to master things fast enough so I can soon contribute something to these very reach mailing lists. I adore Debian and the people who play around with it. I will buy my new laptop (this o

Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 08:59:40AM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: ... > as root, do: > > nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist > or more quickly: $ sed -i /^Reading/d /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist (w/out '$' in col 1, of course) -- paolo GPG/PGP id:0x3A47DE45 - B5F9 AAA0 44BD 2B63 81E0 971F C6C0