Re: Mate desktop - was Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-07-16 Thread Frank McCormick
On 16/07/15 05:19 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 17/07/2015, Frank McCormick wrote: For example, how to change the font and font size in the panel and the title bars of windows; as an example, the font for the names of the menu's, in the panel, is too small, making it difficult to read. Again

Re: Mate desktop - was Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-07-16 Thread Bret Busby
On 17/07/2015, Frank McCormick wrote: >> >> For example, how to change the font and font size in the panel and the >> title bars of windows; as an example, the font for the names of the >> menu's, in the panel, is too small, making it difficult to read. > >Again, as far as I know these are fu

Re: Mate desktop - was Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-07-16 Thread Bret Busby
On 17/07/2015, Frank McCormick wrote: >> >> Also, whether a screensaver is available, like the screensaver in >> gnome 2, that allows for the screensaver to be directed (for >> displaying stuff while the screen is taken over by the screensaver) to >> the Pictures directory, rather than one of the

Re: Mate desktop - was Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-07-16 Thread Frank McCormick
On 16/07/15 12:35 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 15/07/2015, Bret Busby wrote: On 04/07/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-06-22, Bret Busby wrote: [...] Is it really too much to ask, for application names to be in english? Yes it is. And, does it have all of thev functionality of gnome 2,

Re: Mate desktop - was Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-07-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 16 July 2015 17:35:06 Bret Busby wrote: > On 15/07/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 04/07/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> On 2015-06-22, Bret Busby wrote: > >> > >> [...] > >> > >>> Is it really too much to ask, for application names to be in english? > >> > >> Yes it is. > >> > >>> And

Mate desktop - was Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-07-16 Thread Bret Busby
On 15/07/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 04/07/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2015-06-22, Bret Busby wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> Is it really too much to ask, for application names to be in english? >> >> Yes it is. >> >>> >>> And, does it have all of thev functionality of gnome 2, including (but >>

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-07-14 Thread Bret Busby
On 04/07/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-06-22, Bret Busby wrote: > > [...] > >> Is it really too much to ask, for application names to be in english? > > Yes it is. > >> >> And, does it have all of thev functionality of gnome 2, including (but >> not limited to) allowing the panel to be posi

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-07-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-06-23, Bret Busby wrote: > On 23/06/2015, Don Armstrong wrote: >> On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Bret Busby wrote: >>> But all of this digression into discussing the mate desktop >>> environment stll does not get either Debian 6 or 7 working with either >>> the intel, or the nvidia, graphics device

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-07-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-06-22, Bret Busby wrote: [...] > Is it really too much to ask, for application names to be in english? Yes it is. > > And, does it have all of thev functionality of gnome 2, including (but > not limited to) allowing the panel to be positioned along the bottom > of the screen, and, incl

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Bret Busby wrote: > It is unfortunate that the direction that this thread has now taken, > appears to indicate that Debian versions, apart from ths "stable" > version, are not supported. On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Bret Busby wrote: > And so is the particular computer, now, "old", so

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 23/06/2015, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Bret Busby wrote: >> But all of this digression into discussing the mate desktop >> environment stll does not get either Debian 6 or 7 working with either >> the intel, or the nvidia, graphics device, in the Acer V3-772G, to >> drive the e

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 23/06/2015, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Bret Busby wrote: >> But all of this digression into discussing the mate desktop >> environment stll does not get either Debian 6 or 7 working with either >> the intel, or the nvidia, graphics device, in the Acer V3-772G, to >> drive the e

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Bret Busby wrote: > But all of this digression into discussing the mate desktop > environment stll does not get either Debian 6 or 7 working with either > the intel, or the nvidia, graphics device, in the Acer V3-772G, to > drive the external monitor. Squeeze and Wheezy are ol

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 23/06/2015, Martin Read wrote: > On 22/06/15 18:01, Bret Busby wrote: >> The names of the applications are also in spanish. >> >> Is it really too much to ask, for application names to be in english? > > Speaking as a native speaker of English: Yes. > > What's wrong with using languages other t

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-22 Thread Martin Read
On 22/06/15 18:01, Bret Busby wrote: The names of the applications are also in spanish. Is it really too much to ask, for application names to be in english? Speaking as a native speaker of English: Yes. What's wrong with using languages other than English to name programs? The last program

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Bret Busby wrote: > The names of the applications are also in spanish. They're just names. You're using a DE with a mouse and icons; the names don't really matter that much. > Is it really too much to ask, for application names to be in english? Yes. Commands and application

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 23/06/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > But you are just a troll Me a troll? Is it me who started flaming a list subscriber who was trying to get something working in Debian? Strange - I thought that an objective of this list, was to help people who can not get things working in Debian, rather tha

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 23/06/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 22 June 2015 17:25:38 Bret Busby wrote: >> On 21/06/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > On Saturday 20 June 2015 18:01:41 Bret Busby wrote: >> >> mate, apart from being in spanish, >> > >> > codswallop! >> > >> > Lisi >> >> At >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 22 June 2015 17:25:38 Bret Busby wrote: > On 21/06/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 20 June 2015 18:01:41 Bret Busby wrote: > >> mate, apart from being in spanish, > > > > codswallop! > > > > Lisi > > At > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_(software) > is > > " > MATE (/mɑːteɪ/;

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 22 June 2015 17:25:38 Bret Busby wrote: > On 21/06/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 20 June 2015 18:01:41 Bret Busby wrote: > >> mate, apart from being in spanish, > > > > codswallop! > > > > Lisi > > At > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_(software) > is > > " > MATE (/mɑːteɪ/;

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 21/06/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 20 June 2015 18:01:41 Bret Busby wrote: >> mate, apart from being in spanish, > > codswallop! > > Lisi > At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_(software) is " MATE (/mɑːteɪ/; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmate]) is a desktop environment forked from the

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-21 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/20/2015 05:03 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 20 June 2015 18:08:53 Bret Busby wrote: I understand that mate is in spanish, As I said, codswallop. Why don't you look at it before dismissing it? Lisi Lisi. What ever happened to Karl?? :) Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used t

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 20 June 2015 18:08:53 Bret Busby wrote: > I understand that mate is in spanish, As I said, codswallop. Why don't you look at it before dismissing it? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 20 June 2015 18:01:41 Bret Busby wrote: > mate, apart from being in spanish, codswallop! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/2015062022

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/06/2015, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 01:45:42 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: > >> On 20/06/2015, Reco wrote: >> >> > >> > And then again - if Ubuntu satisfies your needs, why suffer with Debian >> > oldstable? >> > >> >> As should be shown by examining the full headers of this an

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/06/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 19 June 2015 18:49:38 Bret Busby wrote: >> On 20/06/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > On Friday 19 June 2015 16:54:12 Bret Busby wrote: >> >> Unfortunately, it appears that once a version of Debian Linux is >> >> "released" and decreed stable, development o

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: >> > Copies of Xorg.0.log (on both Wheezy and Ubuntu) would also be > helpful, just to see what your system detects, and how they differ. > " -Ubuntu-12-04LTS:~

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: >>> On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:23:03 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > How do you determine that it does

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: >>> On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:15:59 +0800 >>> Bret Busby wrote: I note also, that I used synaptic to remove all the nvidia stuff, from the Debian 7 installation, and I removed the bu

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/19/2015 05:58 AM, Bret Busby wrote: ii nvidia-prime0.5~hybrid0.0.3 Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime Google this, for the love of $DEITY$ http://askubuntu.com/questions/363775/what-is-the-use-of-nvidia-prime -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic)

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/19/2015 02:07 PM, Reco wrote: I would rather use Debian 6, as it has the superior interface, to the later Debian versions, and to Ubuntu, but, to use Debian 6, I have to use a lesser computer. Ah, I get it now. So, layman's terms put aside, you like to use GNOME2 and not GNOME3. And that

Re: Still unable to get external monitor working on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 19 June 2015 22:51:40 Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/19/2015 02:51 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > No, it wouldn't solve the problem. He can get Ubuntu going to his > > satisfaction, but he cannot get Debian going to his satisfaction. > > ...running Squeeze, a 5 year old OS, while expecting it will

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/19/2015 02:51 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: No, it wouldn't solve the problem. He can get Ubuntu going to his satisfaction, but he cannot get Debian going to his satisfaction. ...running Squeeze, a 5 year old OS, while expecting it will be maintained at Wheezy/Jessie level. We've beaten that h

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/19/2015 12:23 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 19 June 2015 16:54:12 Bret Busby wrote: Unfortunately, it appears that once a version of Debian Linux is "released" and decreed stable, development of that version and its packages, ceases, and it goes into maintenance mode, so that only bugfix

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 19 June 2015 19:40:11 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 19:31:56 +0100 > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 19 June 2015 18:49:38 Bret Busby wrote: > > > On 20/06/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Friday 19 June 2015 16:54:12 Bret Busby wrote: > > > >> Unfortunately, it appears

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 19:31:56 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 19 June 2015 18:49:38 Bret Busby wrote: > > On 20/06/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 19 June 2015 16:54:12 Bret Busby wrote: > > >> Unfortunately, it appears that once a version of Debian Linux is > > >> "released" an

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 19 June 2015 18:49:38 Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/06/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 19 June 2015 16:54:12 Bret Busby wrote: > >> Unfortunately, it appears that once a version of Debian Linux is > >> "released" and decreed stable, development of that version and its > >> packages, ce

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 01:45:42 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/06/2015, Reco wrote: > > > > > And then again - if Ubuntu satisfies your needs, why suffer with Debian > > oldstable? > > > > As should be shown by examining the full headers of this and other > messages not explicitly sent fro

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/06/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 19 June 2015 16:54:12 Bret Busby wrote: >> Unfortunately, it appears that once a version of Debian Linux is >> "released" and decreed stable, development of that version and its >> packages, ceases, and it goes into maintenance mode, so that only >> bug

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/06/2015, Reco wrote: > > And then again - if Ubuntu satisfies your needs, why suffer with Debian > oldstable? > As should be shown by examining the full headers of this and other messages not explicitly sent from the Debian installations, I am using Ubuntu 12.04, except where necessary for

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/06/2015, Curt wrote: > On 2015-06-19, Bret Busby wrote: >>> >>> Didn't we already go through this once with you in a long, protracted, >>> confused and confusing thread, the exact same issue, not too long ago? >> >> As I have, I believe, previously mentioned, I have been trying for >> about

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Curt
On 2015-06-19, Bret Busby wrote: >> >> Didn't we already go through this once with you in a long, protracted, >> confused and confusing thread, the exact same issue, not too long ago? > > As I have, I believe, previously mentioned, I have been trying for > about two years, now, to get Debian worki

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 23:54:12 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > As I have, I believe, previously mentioned, I have been trying for > about two years, now, to get Debian working on this computer, so that > it can work with the external monitor. > > The status of Debian Linux, with the computer, is t

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 19 June 2015 16:54:12 Bret Busby wrote: > Unfortunately, it appears that once a version of Debian Linux is > "released" and decreed stable, development of that version and its > packages, ceases, and it goes into maintenance mode, so that only > bugfixes and security vulnerabilities, are

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:50:17 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: >> I have attached a copy of the file from the Debian 6 installation. > > It's not loading neither the nouveau nor the nvidia driver, is one of > them correctly installed, and is the kernel module loaded?

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Curt wrote: > On 2015-06-19, Bret Busby wrote: >> >> Sorry - I had read the whole of the post, and had tried to respond to >> it in modularised progressive steps, and when I got down to that part, >> I had forgotten the content of the first paragraph. > > Didn't we already go throu

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:50:17 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > I have attached a copy of the file from the Debian 6 installation. It's not loading neither the nouveau nor the nvidia driver, is one of them correctly installed, and is the kernel module loaded? For Squeeze, I simply do not know. There mig

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Curt
On 2015-06-19, Bret Busby wrote: > > Sorry - I had read the whole of the post, and had tried to respond to > it in modularised progressive steps, and when I got down to that part, > I had forgotten the content of the first paragraph. Didn't we already go through this once with you in a long, prot

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: >>> On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:23:03 +0800 >>> Bret Busby wrote: >>> On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > How do you determine that it doesn't detect the monitor? You can > read

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: >> On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:23:03 +0800 >> Bret Busby wrote: >> >>> On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: >>> > How do you determine that it doesn't detect the monitor? You can >>> > read through /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but it's easi

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > >>> > Copies of Xorg.0.log (on both Wheezy and Ubuntu) would also be >>> > helpful, just to see what your system detects, and how they differ. >>> > >>> >>> " >>> -Ubuntu-12-04LTS:~$ cat Xorg.0.log >>> cat: Xorg.0.log: No suc

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: >>> On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:15:59 +0800 >>> Bret Busby wrote: I note also, that I used synaptic to remove all the nvidia stuff, from the Debian 7 installation, and I removed the bu

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:23:03 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: > >> On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: >> > How do you determine that it doesn't detect the monitor? You can >> > read through /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but it's easier to just run >> > "xrandr" (when both sc

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: >> > Copies of Xorg.0.log (on both Wheezy and Ubuntu) would also be >> > helpful, just to see what your system detects, and how they differ. >> > >> >> " >> -Ubuntu-12-04LTS:~$ cat Xorg.0.log >> cat: Xorg.0.log: No such file or directory >> " > > If you read the

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Curt
On 2015-06-19, Ric Moore wrote: > > "Check and see if you have the tool 'intel-virtual-output' installed. > This is included in 'xf86-video-intel' =< v2.99, aprox date released is > 22/Dec/2014 > "xf86-video-intel" doesn't appear to be a Debian package. I can only find it here: http://www.x.or

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:23:03 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > How do you determine that it doesn't detect the monitor? You can > > read through /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but it's easier to just run > > "xrandr" (when both screens are connected) and see what it detects.

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:15:59 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: >> I note also, that I used synaptic to remove all the nvidia stuff, from >> the Debian 7 installation, and I removed the bumblebee stuff from that >> installation, and reinstalled bumblebee on that instal

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: >> On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:15:59 +0800 >> Bret Busby wrote: >>> I note also, that I used synaptic to remove all the nvidia stuff, from >>> the Debian 7 installation, and I removed the bumblebee stuff from that >>> installation,

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:15:59 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: >> I note also, that I used synaptic to remove all the nvidia stuff, from >> the Debian 7 installation, and I removed the bumblebee stuff from that >> installation, and reinstalled bumblebee on that instal

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: >> On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:15:59 +0800 >> Bret Busby wrote: >>> I note also, that I used synaptic to remove all the nvidia stuff, from >>> the Debian 7 installation, and I removed the bumblebee stuff from that >>> installation,

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/19/2015 12:15 AM, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 19/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: >>> On 06/18/2015 03:25 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: >>> There are, however, no hits on bumblebee for squeeze at all, so it won't help in this case. Maybe you could try to build it

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:15:59 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: >> I note also, that I used synaptic to remove all the nvidia stuff, from >> the Debian 7 installation, and I removed the bumblebee stuff from that >> installation, and reinstalled bumblebee on that instal

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:15:59 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > I note also, that I used synaptic to remove all the nvidia stuff, from > the Debian 7 installation, and I removed the bumblebee stuff from that > installation, and reinstalled bumblebee on that installation, and the > Debian 7 installation als

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-18 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/19/2015 12:15 AM, Bret Busby wrote: On 19/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/18/2015 03:25 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: There are, however, no hits on bumblebee for squeeze at all, so it won't help in this case. Maybe you could try to build it from source? At this point that may be your only ch

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-18 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/18/2015 03:25 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: > >> There are, however, no hits on bumblebee for squeeze at all, so it >> won't help in this case. Maybe you could try to build it from source? At >> this point that may be your only chance. If only you could do that wi

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-18 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/18/2015 03:25 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: There are, however, no hits on bumblebee for squeeze at all, so it won't help in this case. Maybe you could try to build it from source? At this point that may be your only chance. If only you could do that with the drivers... It might also be that it

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 15:07:47 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 18/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > > > > As to your problem with bumblebee, I think Optimus support is > > something that is fairly recent, and might well have come after > > Squeeze. Maybe you will find it in backports? > > > >

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-18 Thread Bret Busby
On 18/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > As to your problem with bumblebee, I think Optimus support is something > that is fairly recent, and might well have come after Squeeze. Maybe > you will find it in backports? > A problem is that, and, I am not sure whether I indicated this in a previous

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-17 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 13:54:51 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 16/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: > > On 06/15/2015 12:39 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > > > >> Get:1 http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze/non-free > >> nvidia-kernel-dkms amd64 195.36.31-6squeeze2 [7,138 kB] > >> Fetched 7,138 kB in 12s (575 kB/s)

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2015-06-17 Thread Bret Busby
On 16/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/15/2015 12:39 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > >> Get:1 http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze/non-free >> nvidia-kernel-dkms amd64 195.36.31-6squeeze2 [7,138 kB] >> Fetched 7,138 kB in 12s (575 kB/s) >> Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-kernel-dkms. >>

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-15 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/15/2015 12:39 PM, Bret Busby wrote: Get:1 http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze/non-free nvidia-kernel-dkms amd64 195.36.31-6squeeze2 [7,138 kB] Fetched 7,138 kB in 12s (575 kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-kernel-dkms. (Reading database ... 152853 files and directorie

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-15 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:39:00AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > sudo purge nvidia* > > (Do not forget to reboot). nVidia ppa's other than xorg-edgers need to > be disabled or removed for the sake of this particular example. > " > > Trying to run that p

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-15 Thread Bret Busby
On 15/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/14/2015 03:29 AM, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 14/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: >> >>> >>> Check that they support your GPU at all first, sometimes it takes a >>> little time for the open source drivers to implement support for the >>> latest models. nVidia is re

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-14 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/14/2015 03:29 AM, Bret Busby wrote: On 14/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: Check that they support your GPU at all first, sometimes it takes a little time for the open source drivers to implement support for the latest models. nVidia is really bad at releasing documentation that is needed b

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-14 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 14/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: >> On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:37:47 +0800 >> Bret Busby wrote: >>> IIn running Synaptic, and searching on the string nvidia, to find what >>> nvidia drivers are installed (as I do not know how else to find that >>> information, in

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-14 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > Check that they support your GPU at all first, sometimes it takes a > little time for the open source drivers to implement support for the > latest models. nVidia is really bad at releasing documentation that is > needed by the nouveau developers. > > Other

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-14 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:37:47 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: >> IIn running Synaptic, and searching on the string nvidia, to find what >> nvidia drivers are installed (as I do not know how else to find that >> information, in Debian 6), I found the following two pac

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-13 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:37:47 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > IIn running Synaptic, and searching on the string nvidia, to find what > nvidia drivers are installed (as I do not know how else to find that > information, in Debian 6), I found the following two packages > installed; > > " > xserver-xorg-vi

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 13/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 13/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: >>> On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 03:54:49 +0800 >>> Bret Busby wrote: >>> On 13/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 12/06/2015, Matthijs Wensveen > wrote: >> >> >> On 11-

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 03:54:49 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: > >> On 13/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: >> > On 12/06/2015, Matthijs Wensveen >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> On 11-6-2015 7:13, Bret Busby wrote: >> >>> On 11/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: >> On 06/10/201

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-12 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 03:54:49 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 13/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 12/06/2015, Matthijs Wensveen > > wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 11-6-2015 7:13, Bret Busby wrote: > >>> On 11/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 11/06/20

Re: Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 12/06/2015, Matthijs Wensveen wrote: >> >> >> On 11-6-2015 7:13, Bret Busby wrote: >>> On 11/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: >> Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. >> >

Re: Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/06/2015, Matthijs Wensveen wrote: > > > On 11-6-2015 7:13, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 11/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: >>> On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: > Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. > > - Nick > > On 06/10/2015 09:19

Re: Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-12 Thread Matthijs Wensveen
On 11-6-2015 7:13, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should contain all the packages n

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: >>> Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. >>> >>> - Nick >>> >>> On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary to

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/10/2015 06:06 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 10 June 2015 23:01:06 Ric Moore wrote: On 06/10/2015 05:44 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 10 June 2015 22:39:36 Ric Moore wrote: On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the maili

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 10 June 2015 23:01:06 Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/10/2015 05:44 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 June 2015 22:39:36 Ric Moore wrote: > >> On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > >>> On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: > Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. > > -

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/10/2015 05:44 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 10 June 2015 22:39:36 Ric Moore wrote: On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should cont

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 10 June 2015 22:39:36 Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: > >> Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. > >> > >> - Nick > >> > >> On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: > >>> Install build-essential it should contain all the p

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary to install the driver. Also you might want to install dkms if you

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 10 June 2015 22:13:21 Bret Busby wrote: > On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: > > nomodeset goes inside the quotes derp :P > > > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nomodeset" > > > > - Nick > > > > On 06/10/2015 11:23 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > >> On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: > >>> Edit /et

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: > nomodeset goes inside the quotes derp :P > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nomodeset" > > - Nick > > On 06/10/2015 11:23 PM, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: >>> Edit /etc/default/grub as root and append nomodeset to >>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEF

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Nick T.
nomodeset goes inside the quotes derp :P GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nomodeset" - Nick On 06/10/2015 11:23 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: Edit /etc/default/grub as root and append nomodeset to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT save exit and run update-grub as root. - Nic

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: > Edit /etc/default/grub as root and append nomodeset to > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT save exit and run update-grub as root. > > - Nick > > On 06/10/2015 10:55 PM, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: >>> Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Nick T.
Edit /etc/default/grub as root and append nomodeset to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT save exit and run update-grub as root. - Nick On 06/10/2015 10:55 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its not already there, I had to add that to make

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: > Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its not already there, I had > to add that to make the driver work. > This will probably make me seem even more stupid than I probably already appear, but, how do I do that? Thank you in anticipation. -- Bret Busby Arm

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Nick T.
Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its not already there, I had to add that to make the driver work. - Nick On 06/10/2015 10:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: > Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. > > - Nick > > On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: >> Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary >> to install the driver. >> Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall the

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/10/2015 02:48 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 10 June 2015 19:36:18 Ric Moore wrote: Add "contrib" and "non-free" components to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example: # Debian 8 "Jessie" deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free When last heard Bret was using Squee

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 10 June 2015 19:36:18 Ric Moore wrote: > Add "contrib" and "non-free" components to /etc/apt/sources.list, for > example: > > # Debian 8 "Jessie" > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free When last heard Bret was using Squeeze. I think he looked at Wheezy, but

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