On Wednesday 25 November 2015 21:12:03 Mauro Condarelli wrote: > Il 25/11/2015 21:28, Lisi Reisz ha scritto: > > On Wednesday 25 November 2015 20:14:04 Mauro Condarelli wrote: > >> Pretty Please, > >> tell me this isn't true: > >> The only sensible answer I got from debian list boils down to: "use > >> proprietary driver". > >> > >> This is truly sad, especially since I *know* Linux Mint (which is a > >> debian derivative, through ubuntu parentage) does indeed work > >> out-of-the-box with *no* configuration at all. > > > > Presumably with a proprietary driver. Mint makes no claims to be > > entirely Free. > > You should (!) not presume too much. > I am not used to speak without checking. > Linux Mint uses nouveau for NVidia.
Then why can't you use the same version of nouveau in Debian? > If You would have bothered checking lsmod I sent a few days ago you would > have known. > > Regards > Mauro > > > Lisi > > > >> A desolate > >> Mauro > >> > >> Il 23/11/2015 14:40, Ric Moore ha scritto: > >>> On 11/22/2015 10:44 AM, Mauro Condarelli wrote: > >>>> Thanks Ric, > >>>> care to share details on how You managed such a marvel? > >>>> How did You disable the internal (intel) "video card" (actually inside > >>>> the CPU chip)? From BIOS? > >>>> What other configuration did You do? > >>> > >>> I just disabled the video feature in the bios. Then I loaded the nvidia > >>> driver. Then I used nvidia-settings to use xinerama and to configure > >>> the order of the monitors. When you "save to X configuration file", > >>> save it in your home directory as you are "user" and not able to save > >>> directly to /etc/X11. Open a terminal and "sudo cp xorg.conf /etc/X11" > >>> to put it there. If you have monitors of differing size, the X Server > >>> Display Configuration will allow you to play tricks, like panning to a > >>> smaller screen to be bigger through scrolling. Slick! Ric
