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> Brian clara.co.uk> writes:
> > Woody (installed from a CD set). I . . .
> > The Woody install seems to have given me 2.2.20.
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> You can have a 2.4 kernel installed with something like "linux2.4" at the
boot
> prompt of t
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> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Alvin Smith wrote:
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> > > > > sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run
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> ...
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> > As far as the video driver is concerned, a driver called
> > "nv" (http://www.xfree86.org/current/nv.4.html) w
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> > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:30:17 -, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:32:49 -, Brian Coiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Thank you Andrea for your reply.
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> On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 11:32, Brian Coiley wrote:
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> > Regarding Sarge, isn't that unstable? What exactly does that mean?
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> Sarge is "Testing" - between Stable and Unstable. Sarge will soon (?)
> become the new stab
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> Brian Coiley wrote:
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> > Many thanks for your reply. I really appreciate your efforts to
> > help. Unfortunately, you have overestimated my abilities! I started
> > on this literally just yesterday, and doing anything at
Brian clara.co.uk> writes:
> Woody (installed from a CD set). I . . .
> The Woody install seems to have given me 2.2.20.
You can have a 2.4 kernel installed with something like "linux2.4" at the boot
prompt of the install cd. But yes, the default is a 2.2 kernel.
> Thus, my command line is th
Brian Coiley wrote:
Many thanks for your reply. I really appreciate your efforts to
help. Unfortunately, you have overestimated my abilities! I started
on this literally just yesterday, and doing anything at all is
requiring a great deal of research and trial-and-error! Specifically:
As others
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Alvin Smith wrote:
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> > > > sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run
...
> As far as the video driver is concerned, a driver called
> "nv" (http://www.xfree86.org/current/nv.4.html) will be used and installed by
> default for the nvidia card. If you need special featu
On Sunday 21 November 2004 06:32 am, Brian Coiley wrote:
> "Andrea Vettorello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:30:17 -, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > Complete Linux newbie here. Successfully partitioned t
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> "Andrea Vettorello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Thank you Andrea for your reply. I have spent hours trawling archives, and
> found lots of threads about Nvidia drivers, but
On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 11:32, Brian Coiley wrote:
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> Regarding Sarge, isn't that unstable? What exactly does that mean?
>
Sarge is "Testing" - between Stable and Unstable. Sarge will soon (?)
become the new stable.
> How
> exactly would I switch to it? I deliberately chose to install Woody,
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> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:30:17 -, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Complete Linux newbie here. Successfully partitioned the disk on my W2K
> > box, and got it dual-booting with Woody (installe
Many thanks for your reply. I really appreciate your efforts to help.
Unfortunately, you have overestimated my abilities! I started on this
literally just yesterday, and doing anything at all is requiring a great
deal of research and trial-and-error! Specifically:
> Well woody also supports Lin
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:30:17 -, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Complete Linux newbie here. Successfully partitioned the disk on my W2K
> box, and got it dual-booting with Woody (installed from a CD set). I
> thought that was pretty cool, and I was going good! Tried startx,
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 10:30:17AM -, Brian wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Complete Linux newbie here. Successfully partitioned the disk on my W2K
> box, and got it dual-booting with Woody (installed from a CD set). I
> thought that was pretty cool, and I was going good! Tried startx, and got
> thi
Hi there,
Complete Linux newbie here. Successfully partitioned the disk on my W2K
box, and got it dual-booting with Woody (installed from a CD set). I
thought that was pretty cool, and I was going good! Tried startx, and got
this: (EE) No devices detected.
Hmmm, no video driver presumably. My
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