On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 06:27:17PM +, Nuno Magalh??es wrote:
I have an Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard with Athlon64 3500+. It comes with
NVIDIA GeForce 6150 + nForce 430. Right now it's running XP 64 Pro at
acceptable levels.
I've run Knoppix several times and it works fine - detects everything
but the sound, but it's not the latest version. By fine i mean i can
work with it, i'm not sure if it's using all the bells 'n' whistles
it's supposed to.
Now i'm trying to install the latest Debian 64 port but i have
problems with the installer: it won't see the ethernet card or the
SATA disc. The Linux nForce Drivers page recomends quite a few drivers
there, but somehow for some reason only particular distros are
supported (rpm based afaik). Shouldn't it be generic? Anyway Debian's
not on the list and the zip contains many source versions of drivers
there, the only one i couldn't find is hda_intel.c for the sound. I'd
still have to manage a way of using them since i have no floppy drive
(sure i could plug one in). I'm not really in the mood for trying
drivers from multiple distros on another distro.
It's a minimal installer (business card), it's supposed to download
everything - if i manage to get the networking going will it fetch all
the required drivers?
If i use the Unix Drivers page all of the AMD64 links i've tried link
to misformed html pages that won't fully load. And FTP's always full.
Any suggested packages post-install? Some 3D stuff? OpenGL?
Any help is appreciated.
Get the install CD for Etch, preferably the latest daily build, unless
RC2 has been released already. Sarge is simply too old to support
hardware that new. I would expect the 2.6.18 kernel in the Etch
installer to deal with the hardware on your system just fine. Doesn't
matter if you use business card or netinstall or whichever as far as I
can tell. I always use netinstall, so I am not sure which bits business
card leaves out.
As for video, make sure to enable contrib and non-free in your
sources.list and then follow one of the guide on installing the nvidia
binary drivers (mine is at http://www.tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/).
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Len Sorensen
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