On Thursday 18 July 2019 13:31:23 Richard Hobson wrote: > FIXED. su - worked a treat and I'm now looking at the Debian home page > on the Linux box. > > I got some odd messages from dpkg about possible missing firmware in > > /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108/.... mostly for "module nouveau". > > so presumably my graphics card. I've not noticed any problems with the > graphics but I've yet to use it much. We'll see.
All video cards should respond to the vesa driver. Trolling thru /var/log/Xorg.0.log with 'less' will answer that question. But vesa has I believe a max resolution of 800x600 so while it will work it will not work to the cards or monitors real capabilities. There 2 schools of thought, one being to go get from Nvidia, the correct driver for your card. But that driver does not play nice with applications that need realtime or near realtime kernel performance as it can lock other processes away from the kernel by disabling IRQ responses, sometimes for hundreds of milliseconds in its efforts to give you fast graphics. Nvidia has been kind enough to throw some friendlier code over the legal wall which has allowed the linux folks to write drivers for these cards, and that driver is much nicer to apps that need realtime access to the kernels services. By not hogging the IRQ's. This driver, called "nouveau", is available from most all the distro's and can be installed directly from the repo's with the distros favorite package manager as soon as you get a working network connection going. > Thanks to Greg and Curt for the info about su - and Gene for the > correct syntax for checking a PATH. Thank you for the flowers, Richard. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
