Re: [linux-audio-user] DeMuDi unusable on widescreen nVidia LCD

From: Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Jan 23 2005 - 22:38:32 EET

My suggestions:

1. http://demudi.alioth.debian.org/wiki/DocumentsFaq
2. search the archives of the DeMuDi mailing lists
3. subscribe to the DeMuDi users mailing list.

See:
http://demudi.alioth.debian.org/wiki/ContactsLists

Cheers,
Andreas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon B" <30plxf602@email-addr-hidden>
To: <linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 12:20 AM
Subject: [linux-audio-user] DeMuDi unusable on widescreen nVidia LCD

> I have tried this twice. I install DeMuDi, and the installer works
> fine, but then when it actually tries to run, it SCREWS UP HARDCORE.
> The screen turns into nothing but purple and teal vertical lines. The
> first time I knew nothing about linux and gave up. The second time
> was today. I cleared out some room and made a new partition to
> experiment with distros, since my current system is very crash-prone
> and unorthodox. I know a little bit more this time, so I pushed
> ctrl+alt+F1 to get the regular prompt. But even that is screwed up,
> with black and white vertical lines everywhere. I can kind of see
> through them to read what I am typing, but not very easily. I have a
> (mostly) working low-latency-modified Libranet install on another
> partition. Maybe I could copy my XF86Config from there? Also I need
> the nVidia drivers, however, which would require my network card to be
> functional. I also need network card drivers to get my network card
> functional, which would require my network card to be functional. :-)
>
> It is a non-fun adventure!
>
> Any advice? For the Libranet install, I got the nVidia working with
> the Libranet installer here: http://libranet.com/support/2.8/0365 and
> got the network card working with the Libranet installer here:
> http://libranet.com/support/2.8/0316 (downloaded in windows and then
> opened in linux).
>
> More info about my installation here:
> http://mysite.verizon.net/negatron/linux/libranet8600.html
>
> Perhaps a suggestion for another distro / distro modification? (Feel
> free to point me to instructions instead of writing them out.) A 2.6
> kernel would be nice, so I can have the integrated ALSA and
> low-latency, and so I can write to NTFS partitions, but none of the
> debian music distros seem to use it. Why is that? I like the idea of
> debian handling dependencies for me, but it hasn't really handled them
> that well in practice. I am not apt enough to fully get apt-get, I
> guess. So I would consider another package system, although I fear
> the alternatives are even scarier.
>
> Hmmmm... I could use LIbranet (or mepis or something?) to install a
> minimal system, dist upgrade to debian unstable, and then upgrade to
> demudi, right? That might be my best option...
>
Received on Mon Jan 24 00:15:07 2005

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