[gobolinux-users] "Connection to CUPS server failed ...."

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 3/15/07, Heikki Pesonen <fossiili at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/14/07, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org> wrote:
> > ensure that you have loaded the nvidia
> > driver before launching X ('depmod -a' + 'modprobe nvidia' does that).
>
> Now it is a beautifull sunny  morning in Tyrnävä and my Gobo Linux looks
> great. After "modprobe nvidia" "NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module" is loaded and
> I could configure the desktop to LCD:s native resolution.

Ah, great! :-)

> But cf. "The idea is to always show the licence agreement screen so that the
> user
> becomes aware of it,", so should I
>  wget http://gobolinux.org/download/scripts/InstallNvidia
> and install NVIDIA again?
>
> I can live without seeing NVIDIA licence agreement, but?

No, no. That's only for the installer (in the Recipe submitted to the
store yesterday). There's no need to do that every time the user turns
his/her PC on ;-)

> By the way: In nearly every Linux (Fedora Core, Knoppix, Mandriva, Suse and
> Ubuntu) it has been a hard job to get NVIDIA installed and running well with
> my GeForce Nvidia 6200 display card. Even in the case of Suse 10.2 I could
> not get 3D acceleration to work. Only Sabayon Linux had NVIDIA installed and
> working well from the beginning.
>
> I know the driver is proprietary, but still - I bought Nvidia 6200 for the
> sake that Nvidia display card were told to work well with Linux's. How
> terrible is the life with other display cards?

My girlfriend has a laptop with an ATI card. I can't remember which
driver it uses, but it was a *nightmare* to make it work. I had to
take a look into Gentoo's Wiki, where a lot of tips and hacks were
documented on that card's section. Nvidia's support, while proprietary
and not that good, is still better than ATI's..

-- 
Lucas
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