Where's 'TOM'? & Tuxracer is dragging his feet.

[Bill Stoye]

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 15:10 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On 2004-10-05  5:47 -0700, Bill Stoye wrote:
> > I know I used 'TOM' before but he's shown up missing! 
> 
> I do not know what you mean by "TOM".
It's an application to list hardware; it was in the menu, I've spent a
lot of time trying to find it again; I may be overlooking something but
it's not for the lack of looking.

> 
> > I would like to get 'Tuxracer' working a full speed. I'm not much of a
> > game player but on occasion dink around with Tux. My card it an 'Asylum
> > GeForce FX 5200 256MB', was looking to see how TOM listed it but he's
> > gone(?).
> 
> You need to install the non-free nvidia drivers to get it rocking:
> install the package 'linux-restricted-modules-386' pacakge (assuming
> that you did not install your own kernel; otherwise use -686 or -k7)
> and the package nvidia-glx. Then do
> 
>   sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
> 
> Accept all default answers, but the one which asks for the driver; use
> 'nvidia' instead of 'nv' there. Then please add a line containing
> 'nvidia' to /etc/modules. Reboot your system, and you are done.
> 
> A fellow (Fabio) is working on a script which does all of this
> automatically, so don't be afraid that this will say so complicated
> for very long :-)
> 
> Can somebody pleeease add this as a FAQ?
I'm sorry, after I posted I came across your reply to a post for 'Nvidia
support'; I followed your instructions; it worked to a tee! Tux is up to
speed and I couldn't be more happy with an OS.

Thank you very much, again, sorry for the oversight.

Bill

> 
> Martin
>