GRML 0.6-1 and GNOME 2.12 on a portable USB drive. It must boot "any" PC.
About installing nVidia. Is it dangerous for this user scenario? Will such a system ONLY boot machines that have nVidia cards, or "any" PC?
List exact steps to get nVidia support. GRML repository has nVidia stuff but kernel replacement has me worried. Better safe than sorry...so I ask questions.
Thanks for the advice. Mark
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:13:16PM -0700, Mark wrote:
GRML 0.6-1 and GNOME 2.12 on a portable USB drive. It must boot "any" PC.
No OS boots "any" PC ;-)
About installing nVidia. Is it dangerous for this user scenario? Will such a system ONLY boot machines that have nVidia cards, or "any" PC?
No, it's only a kernel module that is loaded on demand. And the xserver knows which module to load, too.
List exact steps to get nVidia support.
Yes, Sir!
Some kind of politeness would increase our motivation significantly, at least mine.
GRML repository has nVidia stuff but kernel replacement has me worried. Better safe than sorry...so I ask questions.
Just give it a try. BTW: It's not a kernel replacement, just a kernel module.
greets Jimmy
No OS boots "any" PC ;-)
Of course, that's why I used "quotes." Anyway, it should boot machines that have nVidia and machines that don't.
List exact steps to get nVidia support.
Yes, Sir!
Some kind of politeness would increase our motivation significantly, at least mine.
I was not impolite; you read too much between the lines. Please, I am sincerely asking for help. I love GRML and want to "do it right" so I don't create a mess out of (my own) ignorance -- and then have to bother GRML with senseless questions. That is why I ask for exact steps.
nVidia support has been a troublesome Linux issue for a long time. I am not an expert, but I know that much about nVidia, which is why I ask exactly how to do it in GRML before changing the user machines. (They complain a lot when things are not right, and I look bad, and GRML looks bad to them.)
There is not a lot of traffic on the GRML mailing list. Also, I do not bother you with "how do I install GNOME?" and such questions. I focus on hardware/driver issues. I do not feel bad asking about those, even if the answer is "obvious" to you.
Just give it a try. BTW: It's not a kernel replacement, just a kernel module.
There is a 1.4M file in GRML repository called nvidia-kernel-2.6.15-grml_1.0.8178-1+grml.07_i386.deb
The file does not say "module" anywhere, so the name confused me. It looks (to me) like a full kernel replacement. Not saying it's wrong, just explaining how I got that impression.
Thank you for the outstanding work on GRML 0.6 everyone.
Mark
* Mark or2uvma02@sneakemail.com [20060201 21:59]:
List exact steps to get nVidia support.
Yes, Sir! Some kind of politeness would increase our motivation significantly, at least mine.
I was not impolite; you read too much between the lines.
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Adding a "could you please help me" - or at least a "please" has a positive effect on increasing motivation of developers.
Just give it a try. BTW: It's not a kernel replacement, just a kernel module.
There is a 1.4M file in GRML repository called nvidia-kernel-2.6.15-grml_1.0.8178-1+grml.07_i386.deb
The file does not say "module" anywhere, so the name confused me. It looks (to me) like a full kernel replacement. Not saying it's wrong, just explaining how I got that impression.
% apt-cache show nvidia-kernel-2.6.15-grml | sed -ne "/^Description/,/^$/p" Description: NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.6.15-grml These XFree86 4.0 binary drivers provide optimized hardware acceleration of OpenGL applications via a direct-rendering X Server and support the GeForce (>2), nForce and Quadro chipsets. AGP and flat panel displays are also supported. . This package contains the NVIDIA binary kernel module needed by nvidia-glx. . For more information on this source package visit NVIDIA's homepage at http://www.nvidia.com/ .
regards, -mika-
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