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Multimedia for Debian Sarge PDF Print E-mail
Written by machiner   
Monday, 23 May 2005
[EDIT: Debian GNU/Linux - Etch: w32codecs are no longer needed for mplayer and wmv9 - October, 2006]

The thing is - What's the fun if you can't hear any music or watch videos...ey? Multimedia in Debian GNU/Linux is a snap. As mentioned earlier, Debian supports more hardware out-of-the-box than does your Windows. In about all situations you merely have to install a few packages (easy), run a command or 2 and you're in business...if that. Keep reading...

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nVIDIA driver install Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (Sarge) PDF Print E-mail
Written by machiner   
Tuesday, 17 May 2005
[EDIT 2]  If you have an nVIDIA card in your computer than setting up the 3D driver for Linux for it is a piece of cake. This short tutorial is only one way to accomplish this task, it works for me on a home-made machine (common parts) and it'll probably work for you, too.

See this tutorial for installing the nvidia driver in Etch
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