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Old 15-10-2007, 12:54   #27
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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)
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