Linux Debian support - Installed fine but . . .

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Installed fine but . . .

Richard Carlson

2005-06-15, 8:48 pm

Downloaded and burned the two ISO DVD images of 3.1 Debian. I installed it
to my 2nd IDE drive. I then used apt to install about 200 extra packages
off of the DVD's. I also installed the 2.6 kernel.

Problesms I'm still encountering:

(1) Konqueror is missing Icon graphics ( even after re-install).

(2) Cannot resize screen larger than 800 X 600.

(3) Still can't find Wifi Athero's (Ath0) Wifi card for Internet connection.
(Even after setting up the some of the Networking packages. )

Any help would be appreciated.

Richard

Tim Kynerd

2005-06-16, 2:46 am

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:59:12 -0600, Richard Carlson wrote:

> Downloaded and burned the two ISO DVD images of 3.1 Debian. I installed it
> to my 2nd IDE drive. I then used apt to install about 200 extra packages
> off of the DVD's. I also installed the 2.6 kernel.
>
> Problesms I'm still encountering:
>
> (1) Konqueror is missing Icon graphics ( even after re-install).
>
> (2) Cannot resize screen larger than 800 X 600.
>
> (3) Still can't find Wifi Athero's (Ath0) Wifi card for Internet
> connection. (Even after setting up the some of the Networking packages. )
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Richard

For your networking problems, there's a thread I started a few days ago in
this newsgroup called "No wireless network interface..." that has some
information that might help you. My problems aren't solved yet, but
you may have better luck with the advice I've gotten so far. Take a look.

Best,
Tim

Eduardo Silva

2005-06-16, 5:47 pm

Em Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:59:12 -0600, Richard Carlson escreveu:

> (2) Cannot resize screen larger than 800 X 600.

You can reconfigure X running as root:
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

During this configuration:

1 - Perhaps X is using vesa as a driver(for the
graphic card)? It is only used when Debian installer fails to detect your
video card.

2 - If it's using the correct driver, see the option that let's you
choose the resolutions you want to have. Probably the maximum
selected is 800x600.

Eduardo Silva

2005-06-16, 5:47 pm

Em Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:59:12 -0600, Richard Carlson escreveu:

I've searched in my system (I'm using testing, but there still shouldn't
be many differences to stable) for packages called nvidia. Here's
what I got:

# aptitude search nvidia
P nvidia-cg-toolkit - NVIDIA Cg Toolkit installer
p nvidia-glx - NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver
p nvidia-glx-dev - NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver development files
v nvidia-glx-src -
v nvidia-kernel -
v nvidia-kernel-1.0.7174 -
p nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-386 - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.4.27-2-386
p nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-586tsc - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.4.27-2-586tsc
p nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-686 - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.4.27-2-686
p nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-686-smp - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.4.27-2-686-smp
p nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-k6 - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.4.27-2-k6
p nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-k7 - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.4.27-2-k7
p nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-k7-smp - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.4.27-2-k7-smp
p nvidia-kernel-common - NVIDIA binary kernel module common files
p nvidia-kernel-source - NVIDIA binary kernel module source
v nvidia-kernel-src -
p nvidia-settings - Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver

Of these, some interesting ones are nvidia-glx and nvidia-settings.
Install nvidia-glx and choose it as your video card driver when running as
root:

# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

Alternatively, install nvidia-settings and configure your card.

Also, while there exist NVIDIA binary kernels modules for 2.4
there isn't for 2.6. Perhaps because it's already part of linux in 2.6?

P.S.- I've never owned a Nvidia card, nor had to install one, so I have no
experience with it.