Thanks, Bret, I was thinking of switching to Intel when I next upgrade, so this will either help me to decide on change, or confirm my continuation with AMD.
"Tidy as you go!" The Starship Titanic, Douglas Adams... Terence On 3 March 2016 at 05:24, Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 03/03/2016, Levi S. Darrell <levidarr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to get my NVIDIA video hardware to work properly with X. I am > > running Debian Testing, which I just installed a few days ago. > > <snip> > > Hello. > > I have, some time ago, posted a series of messages, relating to a > problem where it took me two years to get a portable computer working > with a non-MS operating system. > > As it was, I found only two non-MS operating systems to then have the > drivers for the intel i7 CPU; DragonflyBSD and Ubuntu Linux. > > Of those, only Ubuntu had a driver that worked the nVIDIA graphics thing. > > So, I am now using UbuntuMATE 15.10 on the system. > > My suggestion to you, is to try (possibly first in live mode, rather > than installed) running Ubuntu on the system, and, finding how it > works, with the system hardware. I would suggest downloading a > UbuntuMATE 15.10 iso, and trying that, but, whilst my preference is > for the GNOME2 styled interface that I get with UbuntuMATE, others may > prefer different interfaces. > > -- > > Bret Busby > Armadale > West Australia > > .............. > > "So once you do know what the question actually is, > you'll know what the answer means." > - Deep Thought, > Chapter 28 of Book 1 of > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: > A Trilogy In Four Parts", > written by Douglas Adams, > published by Pan Books, 1992 > > .................................................... > >
