Re: Debain linux
 

See if this helps when installing the driver:

Re: Debain linux
 

Never mind got it now used the nvidia provided binary installer :D

oh and

:eeek: the Kernel I compiled from source actually works

Would try doing that on the macbook but i think i'd probably break madwifi

So desktop done now I just need to sort the sound on the macbook, the deafult browser and get some nicer fonts.

Re: Debain linux
 

Glad you got it sorted! :)

A kernel with your own name on, I'm jealous! ;)

Oh, have a look here re setting up MS fonts in Debian...

Re: Debain linux
 

Now regarding the macbook, I had a play about seems if I run the gnome sound/volume manager from a root terminal it works.

Seems like my user needs access to something to get control of the sound but what

I did try adding myself to the audio group but that didn't appear to work (unless a restart is required to read the changes?)
Unlike the desktop my user on this machine was created post install with the adduser command.

Edit:

Turns out I needed to add my user to the audio group and then restart

Re: Debain linux
 

I don't think you actually need a restart, just log out & back in again...

Re: Debain linux
 

Whopps oh well

Tried beryl but it doesn't seem to work properly it just gives a white screen unless you set redering path to copy but then its very glitchy

Re: Debain linux
 

Try turning off xgl, you don't need it with newer nVidia cards. I've got a 6200 & I run in native mode...

Re: Debain linux
 

Beryl is not developed anymore, why not try compiz-fusion ?

Re: Debain linux
 

added a repo containing compiz but im having a problem

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
compiz-plugins: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0) but 2.10.13-1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages


any ideas where to obtain a newer libgtk

Re: Debain linux
 

There's a tutorial for installing compiz-fusion (compiz forked from Beryl, compiz-fusion is them recombined) on Etch here...

Re: Debain linux
 

Thanks i'll give it a shot later in the week, after playing around with it all day getting things working on linux I decided to sit on windows and surf the internet for a bit (not sure if the streaming radio feed i currently have playing will work on linux)

Edit:

I think it was fusion I was trying to install but its the compiz-plugin package it wants to install thats causing me a problem, i'll try with that repo in the guide But it wouldn't surprise me if i come up against the same problem.

I get the feeling i'm about to drop right into dependency hell and from my past ventures into the Linux world I know that's not a nice place to be.

Re: Debain linux
 

The link supplied by Cobbydaler looks straight forward enough dragon.

Install proprietry Nvidia drivers (a choice that is up to you), Debian also have a wiki entry here:

http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

Which may help - open or closed source drivers are up to you.

The steps after that are just adding the compiz-fusion repository to your sources.list ;backup your original sources.list with:

sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.old

or something similar (I'm using Kubuntu as the base - ensure sources.list is in the same path)

Of course with any repository - you need to trust what they are supplying you - have a Google around to confirm you are happy the source is trusted.

I don't use Nvidia cards - so have no particular experience, but it seems fairly straight-forward.

Best of luck :)

Incidentally the kernel you have created used Debians kernel tools - which 'changed' the vanilla kernel to work on Debian - so in essence the kernel is no longer vanilla - but a mute point really :)

EDIT:

If the .deb for compiz has been packaged correctly - all dependencies should be sorted out by apt (fingers crossed)

Re: Debain linux
 

IRC!

irc.freenode.net

#debian

:angel:

Re: Debain linux
 

It was the laptop with a intel gma950 I was trying compiz on earlier, but i'll have another look at it and try again soon.

Re: Debain linux
 

I ment beryl but i get the same problem with compiz