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After a two day 10 hr download I got both DVD ISO images for Debian 3.10r0a
burned to two DVD disks. . . .It took a while but I was able to get this
accomplished. I installed Debian onto my 2nd IDE drive and the grub
bootloader successfully installed itself on my root boot partition on my
first drive. Fortunately it did not ignor the Mepis Linux on this drive and
it is in the grub menu along with Debian when the system boots up. So I
still up and running.

Now for the problems I'm having. . . .

(1) My screen resolution is set as a default 800 X 600 mode and cannot be
changed in the program. I've got a 5200 Nvidia Video card. This is
problematic. The inital install set it up in this mode because it stated
that Nvida cards created problems. I enter my screen Horz and Vert refresh
rates because I've got a LCD screen moniter.

(2) I cannot get my Netgear Wg311 Wifi card to be recognized by the
networking programs. . . Ath0 cannot be found. I will give ndiswrapper a
try won't stop there.

(3) Konqueror is missing a bunch of menu icons when the program is started.

(4) I believe the kernel is set up as 2.4 as default. I'd like to get 2.6
insstalled. . .

Where do I go from here? I need some help in geting the bugs out. Does one
of these disks contain 2.6 kernel modules? I wouldn't know.

I've gotten Mepis, Suse, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Knoppix 3.9 all to work with
my computer. . . I suprised that Debian is giving me these problems. . .


Any help or direction would be appreciated.

Richard

Richard Carlson wrote:

>(1) My screen resolution is set as a default 800 X 600 mode and cannot be
>changed in the program. I've got a 5200 Nvidia Video card. This is
>problematic. The inital install set it up in this mode because it stated
>that Nvida cards created problems. I enter my screen Horz and Vert refresh
>rates because I've got a LCD screen moniter.
>
Isn't this one of the usual "hassles" with Debian? Editing of
etc/X11/XF86Config or etc/X11/XF86Config-4 will be necessary. I remember
almost having to "crank up" my screen resolution, editing the above
files and then going to Desktop Preferences>Screen Resolution. Screen
related part of XF86Config on my machine:

# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400"
Monitor "AL1931"
DefaultDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection


and XF86Config-4:


Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]"
Driver "nv"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "PciRetry" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Acer AL1931"
HorizSync 30-80
VertRefresh 60-75
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]"
Monitor "Acer AL1931"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "Generic Mouse"
EndSection

>
>(4) I believe the kernel is set up as 2.4 as default. I'd like to get 2.6
>insstalled. . .
>
>Where do I go from here? I need some help in geting the bugs out. Does one
>of these disks contain 2.6 kernel modules? I wouldn't know.
>
>
I can't really add to my post under:

Re: Will apt-get update not upgrade kernel also?

here.

>I've gotten Mepis, Suse, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Knoppix 3.9 all to work with
>my computer. . . I suprised that Debian is giving me these problems. . .
>
>

As easy as it is to install things on Debian using apt-get/Synaptic,
Debian is very uninclined in my (limited) experience to even try to
guess the settings an "average" user might want.

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:39:54 -0600, Richard Carlson wrote:

> (4) I believe the kernel is set up as 2.4 as default. I'd like to get 2.6
> insstalled. . .

At the first screen you'll get when installing sarge type linux26 after
boot:
And sarge will be install with a 2.6 kernel.

Like this: http://home.quicknet.nl/mw/prive/gch/SargeInstall.png

Chris Maaskant.

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Richard Carlson napisa³(a):
> After a two day 10 hr download I got both DVD ISO images for Debian 3.10r0a
> burned to two DVD disks. . . .

Richard sorry for the off-topic but could you please give me links to
thouse images? I'm having troubles downloading them from polish mirrors
and if you downloaded and used them so i will know that they are ok.

Thanks