Recentness: Januaryish, 2005
This would be so much better in a wiki format. Too bad I can't run one on my ISP's account. Does anyone know if such a thing exists?
So this is just random notes that I wrote down thinking I would make a real page, but then I never used demudi anyway. I switched to PlanetCCRMA a few weeks after losing my patience with demudi, and guess what? I hate that, too.
But it generally has more recent packages...
Feel free to ask me what any of these cryptic notes mean. I might remember, but probably not.
I wrote down
SETTERM -BLENGTH 0
I remember this is supposed to turn off that annoying system bell, but I don't remember if it actually worked.
First I tried just installing demudi but my screen just went
haywire. So I did Libranet → Debian → Demudi. It worked,
but... eh... who understands this stuff anyway?
Download bcm package in windows first from libranet site
install libranet 2.8.1 minimal
install
You have to recompile the kernel to use the network thing:
1. Go to xadminmenu → Kernel tab → Recompile kernel
2. I changed the processor to Pentium III instead of 486, since the Pentium M is apparently based on the Pentium III.
3. Make no other changes and recompile.
4. Read a book. It takes about 15 minutes on this computer.
5. Reboot after recompile.
copy the bcm file from your /windows directory
follow instructions on site
xadminmenu network configuration
you can check that it's working by running lynx and pressing g and typing a website of your choice
while this was working i commented out everything except the two sarge lines:
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/ sarge/non-us main contrib non-free
i used nano but there are probably others better.
then save it
then upgrade to debian sarge:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
get your book back out.
It'll download everything, and then start installing it. This is where it gets stupid, debian-style.
sup-process ... dpkg returned an error code (1)
i guess because i picked kde for debconf. duh. kde isn't installed yet. of course i had no idea what debconf is when it asked me that. debian is a pain in the ass.. i picked the defaults for everything. wow this is complicated. i guess you can't escape debian's ridiculous installation questions even by going the libranet way.
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/index.html
This didn't work so I am trying the official nVidia installer after redoing the kernel
Tried to install KDE using synaptic and the KDE package (because synaptic installs suggested packages, too?).
Had trouble conflicting packages with libranet-configs removed it with synaptic
used synaptic to install demudi "meta" package
installed kernel-image-2.6.9.1-multimedia-686
don't need to install als modules because built into 2.6?
update-grub
reboot?
demudi-cfengine?
nvidia installer needs source for kernel
so i look at sources.list and found that demudi-cfengine had added some lines and said DO NOT Touch
i am confused as to why it added these lines :
if it already had these lines:
should i take the old ones out?
INSTEAD OF NVIDIA INSTALLER
ugh
install kernel headers (http://umatic.nl/workshop/demudi_install.txt)
i didn't need to add any lines to sources.list for this
nvidia-kernel-src is older
needs to install nvidia-kernel-source
oh you need to add contrib and non-free to the snapshot added by demudi-cfengine
yes now it works
and uninstalls the older version -src
uname -r
apt-get install kernel-headers-[output of "uname -r"]
apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-kernel-common
module-assistant
module-assistant build nvidia
yay it works now!
but then i get conflicting directions:
1. program says "m-a install nvidia-kernel-source
2. web instructions say "dpkg -i /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-*"
i hope these are the same thing!
i chose #1 because the internet is 5 years out of date 90% of the time and no one mentions the date they wrote their document
then i did apt-get install nvidia-glx
then edited xf86config
rebooted
did it work? i don't remember...
ah yes - that wonderful &^%$#@ bug!
as root, do this:
cd /etc/gdm/Sessions/
ln -s /usr/bin/startkde KDE
now, log out. for Sessions, KDE should now show up. choose it, and you're back in KDE!
yay kde 3.3!
*shakes jowls back and forth in raving lunacy*
you need to enable ac adapter and control method battery snd recompile