apt-get synaptic

[Cyber Source]

Try http://wilsonet.com/mythtv , it shows ways in the howto about 
getting nvidia stuff via apt-get for your particular kernel, pretty cool 
stuff. I will email you separately about the mobo.

jb wrote:

>I have the Nvidia geforce 2mx video card and the only thing I saw in apt was 
>an app to overclock Nvidia (nvclock). If I use the RedHat generic driver I 
>don't get acceleration with Xfree86-Mesa-libGL or something to that effect. I 
>use the driver from Nvidia which has to be recompiled with a kernel upgrade. 
>The Nvidia driver has a auto upgrade and install option but I am on dialup 
>and it requires you not to be in X. I tried setting up ppp so I could dialup 
>from a command line but couldn't get it to work without too much effort. One 
>of these days I'll give ppp another attempt.
>I did get my Handspring Visor set up to hotsync, the only thing giving me 
>problems is it won't sync with kmail to send and receive email. I downloaded 
>pilot-mailsync which might do the trick if I use jpilot, just haven't 
>installed it yet to see.
>On an off subject, I'm looking for a good motherboard over 1 ghz, preferably 
>AMD which uses PC-100 RAM, (3 slots), new or used. HP wants $180 with a core 
>deposit to replace my 755mhz. I didn't even ask HP for a price to upgrade the 
>CPU. If you have a moboard that fits the discription laying around, send me 
>an email (mesimpleton at yahoo.com).
>THX
>JEB
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>On Thursday 29 April 2004 07:59 am, Cyber Source wrote:
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>>just a note about the Nvidia comment. I use Fedora and update the kernel
>>and Nvidia both via apt-get and it couldn't get easier. Don't you get
>>your Nvidia driver via apt-get?
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>>jb wrote:
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>>>I selected repositories of earlier versions of redhat to see what apps
>>>were there. I was surprised there were so many but there weren't any of
>>>interest to me. Resetting the apt repositories back to redhat 9, I
>>>noticed it started fresh at getting the rpm headers similar to using
>>>apt-get install -f
>>>which flushes the headers.
>>>I don't recommend using atrpms as a repository unless you try using the
>>>at-stable list, but I didn't have any luck with those. Here are the
>>>repositories I'm using for RH9 which are working great.
>>>rpm http://apt.sw.be/ redhat/9/en/i386 DAG
>>>rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net/ redhat/9/i386 freshrpms
>>>rpm http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/ redhat/en/i386/9.0 newrpms
>>>rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net/ redhat/9/i386 OS updates
>>>The new kernel ( kernel#2.4.20-31.9 ) for rh9 was a snap to install. I
>>>wish the Nvidia driver was that easy to recompile.
>>>I tried YUM but it wasn't as good and seemed slower compared to apt.
>>>Anyone using other repositories with luck for rh9 and apt?
>>>I'm also using rsync to keep the apt cache of rpms on my other HD along
>>>with an rsync of /home. A full system recovery is just a matter of
>>>loading everything back. I was going to make the rsync a cron job but it
>>>is so fast I would rather run it when I can keep an eye on it so I just
>>>su and copy paste when ever I feel itchy.
>>>updatedb -v
>>>rsync -avz --delete /var/cache/apt/archives/ /store/aptgetrpms/
>>>rsync -avz --delete /home/ /store/homebackup1/
>>>If anyone has anything to add please feel free, any info or opinions are
>>>greatly appreciated...
>>>THX
>>>JEB
>>>www.mesimpleton.com
>>>__________________________________________________________________________
>>>__ Unix:  Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb
>>>it once.
>>>-- Karl Lehenbauer
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