From the Orient

Last night, I spent a futile few hours trying to get X Windows installed on my machine. After a while, I found the answer, or rather the problem, via Google.

My MVidia GeForce 3 graphics card is not compatible with the XFree86 system, or more specifically the device drivers that are provided with the system. Felix provides a great explanation and steps to get round the problem, but I’ve run into further problems trying to apply it.

First off, when trying to make the driver kernel module, I got a message saying that my gcc compiler was different from that which compiled my kernel (or something like that; it is all a little vague to me this morning. I’ll have to try again tonight). Felix explains that I might have to recompile my kernel to get round this. Sounded scary. I can’t even get to first base on this because I can’t find the debian source.

I suppose I’ll have to get this downloaded, but for that I’ll have to networking sorted out. It was very late when debian couldn’t find my ethernet card, so I gave up.

UPDATE: Another link to getting the GeForce3 driver to work

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