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

[Andreas Kuckartz]

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 at sneakemail.com>
To: <linux-audio-user at music.columbia.edu>
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...
>