On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:25, Jason wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Jason. I am probably the sort of person that Linux users
> hate. Bought a magazine with some free CD loaded a Fedora Distro and
> spent a Saturday morning beating my head against a keyboard.
Of course, Linux geekhood is only fully app
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 19:34, Derek Smithies wrote:
as Nvidia require proprietary drivers for 3d hardware
> acceleration, and with gentoo one compiles everything from source, I do
> not see how gentoo will give you 3d hardware acceleration.
>
Well I simply type
emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx
th
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:30, Derek Smithies wrote:
> The topic is: Does one suggest gentoo for a linux newbie?
> My answer is unchanged.
> For 99.9% of linux newbie's, No.
I have watched many people being very successfully guided through a first-time
Linux install using Gentoo Linux on the #gentoo
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:46, Nick Rout wrote:
> agreed, but i would also have to say that I have seen a lot of success
> from relative newbies, people who have never had much to do with the
> command line, and are in that "hard to teach/set in their ways" age
> bracket.
I thought you were refering
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 17:30 +1300, Derek Smithies wrote:
> Hi,
> the reason I felt that gentoo will not do 3d hardware acceleration on
> cards like nvidia is from the oft repeated comments like:
> "gentoo is a source only distro"
> and
> "with gentoo, you compile everything"
>
> If gentoo i
Hi,
the reason I felt that gentoo will not do 3d hardware acceleration on
cards like nvidia is from the oft repeated comments like:
"gentoo is a source only distro"
and
"with gentoo, you compile everything"
If gentoo is actually a source only distro - then how does one cope with
proprietar
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 19:34 +1300, Derek Smithies wrote:
> Yes, some will say Gentoo, but well, Gentoo is for the serious
> enthusiast.
true its best to have some experience with the command line and some
familiarity with the type of computer concepts that puddling around with
winders will not giv
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 19:34:33 +1300 (NZDT), Derek Smithies
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Adding to the problem is if you want 3d hardware acceleration to work.
> Some distros will not get the optimum out of your video card. Given that
> cards such as Nvidia require proprietary drivers for 3d hardwar
Jason,
> sort of person that Linux users hate
Absolutely not - we all start somewhere.
You have made a good start. You have described the problem reasonably
clearly, with a nice text only email. Your email is (to my mind)
totally acceptable.
Welcome aboard - the linux thing does get easier...
On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:25, Jason wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Jason. I am probably the sort of person that Linux users
> hate. Bought a magazine with some free CD loaded a Fedora Distro and
> spent a Saturday morning beating my head against a keyboard.
>
> Bit of history, I loaded RH9 ages ago bu
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 21:29, Jason wrote:
> hey, you might be right. that file contains...
>
> rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/
> rpm http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de fedora/3/en/i386 at-stable
>
> Should I replace it with this?
>
> rpm ftp://ftp.wicks.co.nz/pub/linux/dist/f
Hello,
My name is Jason. I am probably the sort of person that Linux users
hate. Bought a magazine with some free CD loaded a Fedora Distro and
spent a Saturday morning beating my head against a keyboard.
Bit of history, I loaded RH9 ages ago but got quite frustrated when ever
I wanted to load pr
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