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Wireless Card and Video Card

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goose
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Wireless Card and Video Card

#1 Post by goose »

After four years of Ubuntu, I finally decided to man up and migrate to Debian. I'm only having two real issues, my Atheros card, and my NVIDIA card.

For my Atheros card, I found out I'd need either ath5k or madwifi. I have no idea how to update my kernel to use ath5k, so I tried madwifi following this guide: http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/ath_pci

Complete and total epic failure. No idea where to go from there. Also, no idea where to even start with my NVIDIA card. But 800x600 is killing me.

Any help is much appreciated! And if you're on IRC, I'm willing to hop on whatever network to speak with someone in more real time. I tried #Debian on FreeNode, but not many folks willing to help me there, it would appear.

Cheers!

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Re: Wireless Card and Video Card

#2 Post by goose »

Update: Got my wireless card working. I spaced and forgot I have an N card. I followed the directions to install ath9k, and voila! But I still don't know where to even start on making my video card work. Suggestions?

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Re: Wireless Card and Video Card

#3 Post by oOarthurOo »

I don't have an Nvidia card, but I found these two links by searching the forums:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... lit=NVIDIA

http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

The first link suggests installing nvidia-xconfig then running nvidia-xonfig as root. You'll likely have to restart the xserver to see any changes.

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Re: Wireless Card and Video Card

#4 Post by goose »

I ended up actually getting the driver from nvidia, shutting down GDM, installing it, and voila, beautiful 1200x800 resolution! Thank you though!

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Re: Wireless Card and Video Card

#5 Post by dilberts_left_nut »

It's worth doing it the Debian way in the long run.

Using the Nvidia installer works, but, only for one kernel at a time, and every kernel change will leave you with a broken X.
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