[ILUG] package management

[Alan Sobey]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:03:57PM +0000, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
> I took the plunge last night and installed Debian 2.2
> The level of information displayed for the user ranges from the helpful
> to the non-existant. Setting up LILO and other system stuff (network,
> disks) was well documented, but it would have been nice to have better
> descriptions on some of the modules. My mouse still doesn't work, must
> have missed that module..
> 
> Problems arose detecting my video card.. Geforce2MX. It just didn't
> detect that card, and even the VGA16 server barfed on it. There was a
> strange error with isntalling Gnome apps which gave a helpful message
> saying that "too many errors had occured" and requesting I fix them
> later.

There are .debs for X4.0.2 on Debian potato at
http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ Check the READ.THIS file in the
above directory and relevant sub-directories.  For 3D hardware
acceleration for the Geforce2MX the binary Nvidia drivers from
www.nvidia.com are required.

later,
Alan.