On Lu, 14 mar 11, 11:53:27, Dan wrote: > > I guess that you are right Ubuntu might be a better choice for a > desktop as you don't have to fight with the drivers. Is there still a > problem in Debian with the drivers for the graphic cards? I remember > that last time that I used Debian that was an issue because some > vendors wouldn't release the drivers as gnu.
If your card is rather recent it's mostly a matter of activating non-free, installing nvidia-glx or fglrx-driver and writing a minimal xorg.conf to force using it instead of nouveau or radeon. And that is only needed if the respective free driver is not good enough for you. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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