Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/22/2010 12:12 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [snip] The objection I have to the latter is that one is never quite sure that .config is correct with the new kernel. My own kernel never had the Copy a known-working .config file to the new /usr/src/linux and then: # make clean # make oldconfig

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-21 14:45, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [snip] I use 3/ and 195.36.15 to drive 2 seats on 2 GeForce 6200 cards How's that Studebaker holding up? You mean AMC Pacer (XL model 1976). Bought it in SFO for $900 sold it last year in Oaxaca for $150. Saw it half a year a

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-21 14:48, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Eh. I'm still running .31 from December. (Will soon be upgrading to .33, though.) So will I, as soon as it gets out of experimental Or roll your own kernel. You'll learn a lot. I used to rol

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-21 14:45, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [snip] I use 3/ and 195.36.15 to drive 2 seats on 2 GeForce 6200 cards How's that Studebaker holding up? -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-21 14:48, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Eh. I'm still running .31 from December. (Will soon be upgrading to .33, though.) So will I, as soon as it gets out of experimental Or roll your own kernel. You'll learn a lot. -- Dissent is patriotic, remember?

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,21.Apr.10, 14:48:30, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >Eh. I'm still running .31 from December. (Will soon be upgrading > >to .33, though.) > > > > So will I, as soon as it gets out of experimental This will most likely not happen before the release. Regards, Andrei -- Of

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-21 13:04, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:44:38 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-21 12:22, Camaleón wrote: [snip] For GeForce 7600GS you have the following options: 1/ "nv" driver (only 2-D) Except that Nvidia deprecated this driver a few weeks ago..

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:14:09 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: Further to my original post, it was and is my intention to use replace the internal graphics card with Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS card, which I have already but have yet to install. It will of course will use a different driver.

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-21 13:04, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:44:38 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-21 12:22, Camaleón wrote: [snip] For GeForce 7600GS you have the following options: 1/ "nv" driver (only 2-D) Except that Nvidia deprecated this driver a few weeks ago... ... only for "ne

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-21 12:54, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-04-21 19:40 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-21 12:31, Aioanei Rares wrote: [snip] how 'bout nouveau? :-) It's not up to snuff yet. [snip] be, it is already in good shape in sid. Note that it is still 2D only, but it should be muc

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-21 Thread Nick Douma
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 06:04:01PM +, Camaleón wrote: > I find it a bit more difficult to manage (if you change the kernel, you > need to recompile the driver again). IMHO that only depends on what Debian distro you use :P. I can live with logging in to the basic shell, running the .sh again

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-21 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:44:38 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-21 12:22, Camaleón wrote: [snip] >> >> For GeForce 7600GS you have the following options: >> >> 1/ "nv" driver (only 2-D) > > Except that Nvidia deprecated this driver a few weeks ago... ... only for "newer" (fermi) cards ;-)

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-21 Thread Nick Douma
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 01:14:09PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > Further to my original post, it was and is my intention to use replace > the internal graphics card with Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS card, which I > have already but have yet to install. It will of course will use a > different driver. In th

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-04-21 19:40 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-21 12:31, Aioanei Rares wrote: > [snip] >> how 'bout nouveau? :-) >> > > It's not up to snuff yet. Not in Lenny (and it won't be there), but for Squeeze it should soon be, it is already in good shape in sid. Note that it is still 2D

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-21 12:22, Camaleón wrote: [snip] For GeForce 7600GS you have the following options: 1/ "nv" driver (only 2-D) Except that Nvidia deprecated this driver a few weeks ago... 2/ "nvidia" driver from Debian "contrib" and "non-free" sources 3/ "nvidia" driver from nvidia website 4/ VES

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-21 12:31, Aioanei Rares wrote: [snip] how 'bout nouveau? :-) It's not up to snuff yet. -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-21 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:31:42 +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote: > On 04/21/2010 08:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> For GeForce 7600GS you have the following options: >> >> 1/ "nv" driver (only 2-D) >> 2/ "nvidia" driver from Debian "contrib" and "non-free" sources 3/ >> "nvidia" driver from nvidia website 4/

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-21 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/21/2010 08:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:14:09 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: Further to my original post, it was and is my intention to use replace the internal graphics card with Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS card, which I have already but have yet to install. It will of course w

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-21 Thread Mark
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Camaleón wrote: > For GeForce 7600GS you have the following options: > > 1/ "nv" driver (only 2-D) > 2/ "nvidia" driver from Debian "contrib" and "non-free" sources > 3/ "nvidia" driver from nvidia website > 4/ VESA driver (not recommended) > FWIW, I'm using opt

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-21 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:14:09 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > Further to my original post, it was and is my intention to use replace > the internal graphics card with Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS card, which I > have already but have yet to install. It will of course will use a > different driver. In that ca

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-21 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Further to my original post, it was and is my intention to use replace the internal graphics card with Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS card, which I have already but have yet to install. It will of course will use a different driver. In that case, does it rea