After three days of browsing various leads posted here[1], I managed to get my spare computer running on linux 2.6 and nVidia's binary-only video drivers (installed with the help of the non-free "nvidia-graphics-drivers" packages).
Everything seems to be functional, including chromium, tuxracer and armagetron. My only remaining problem is getting the framebuffer console to work. I can get the console to work if I don't enable framebuffer at boot time, i.e. if I boot without the penguin mascot;-). Any pointers? FWIW I built my 2.6 kernel using a framebuffer-capable /boot/config-2.4* saved (with no user-addled changes) thru "make gconfig". [1]e.g. http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/nvidia-2.6-Debian/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
