Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 20, 2005 05:43 PM
Actually I've never seen any installer that would recognize 100% of hardware, especially state-of-the-art graphics. Windows fail too. The cheat sheet should include that if installer fails to recognize and user is still not happy with defaults: look up google for "myhardware debian way" -- in 99% of cases you'll find a success story about your hardware and important configuration lines that fix the problem once and for all.
Now about proprietary drivers: I am happy with current ATI open-source (add it to Matrox list). Nvidia: use module-assistant which will download stuff for you, compile and install all the nitty kernel things: <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/debian.html" title="comcast.net">http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/deb<nobr>i<wbr></nobr> an.html</a comcast.net>
AFAIK module-assistant is being extended to many more problems like installing proprietary drivers for wireless cards and so on.
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there is also room for proprietary drivers
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 20, 2005 05:43 PMThe cheat sheet should include that if installer fails to recognize and user is still not happy with defaults: look up google for "myhardware debian way" -- in 99% of cases you'll find a success story about your hardware and important configuration lines that fix the problem once and for all.
Now about proprietary drivers:
I am happy with current ATI open-source (add it to Matrox list).
Nvidia: use module-assistant which will download stuff for you, compile and install all the nitty kernel things:
<a href="http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/debian.html" title="comcast.net">http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/deb<nobr>i<wbr></nobr> an.html</a comcast.net>
AFAIK module-assistant is being extended to many more problems like installing proprietary drivers for wireless cards and so on.
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