Widescreen 1280x768 Sarge

[anthq]

I ended up grabbing the DVD isos off the Debian site because i needed to do ndiswrapper for my wifi card (i WAS in vmware on windows, testing it out)...

But with all those 15-something thousand packages, is there something that will let me change my resolution to 1280x768 (my best viewed resolution) for my 17" widescreen Westinghouse flat panel?

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks.

[antidrugue]

The file you want to edit is /etc/X11/xorg.conf. But it probably won't display in 1280x768 unless you install the proper driver for you video card?

Which video card is it?

[anthq]

Its a ATi Radeon 9250...

After I downloaded and burned those 2 DVD ISOs, shouldnt ndiswrapper and all that (Fluxbox, blackbox, etc) be included on those disks?

I ran through the install on my machine and doing "ndiswrapper" at the terminal results in a "bash: command not found". Do I need to do a "Manual package selection"? If so, how would i get EVERYTHING (all 15,000) packages installed?

[antidrugue]

Its a ATi Radeon 9250...

Did you install ATI proprietary drivers? You will probably need them to set your resolution to 1280x768.

You can get them installed like that :

As a user:

wget https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.25.18-x86.run

As root:

apt-get install fakeroot module-assistant build-essential kernel-headers-$(uname -r)

As a user:

fakeroot ./ati-driver-installer-8.25.18-x86.run --buildpkg Debian/sarge

As root:

dpkg -i fglrx-driver_8.25.18-1_i386.deb fglrx-kernel-src_8.25.18-1_i386.deb
cd /usr/src
m-a prepare
m-a a-i fglrx

and then modify you /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file accordingly to the instructions here:
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.sta...html#configure

I ran through the install on my machine and doing "ndiswrapper" at the terminal results in a "bash: command not found".

Did you follow this guide?
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...ork-linux.html

Do I need to do a "Manual package selection"? If so, how would i get EVERYTHING (all 15,000) packages installed?

Install all the packages? You cannot do it, as many of them are conflictual. Anyway, why do you want to do it?

[anthq]

Well i need everything thats related to wifi, as I cannot connect to LAN, only my D-Link DWL-G510 PCI Card. So mabye I need a backport of madwifi OR i need ndiswrapper.

Apart from that it'd be nice to have fluxbox/blackbox, etc., but I can apt-get those later....only necessary thing is ndiswrapper (or madwifi) and the ATi Drivers.

Is there a way I can install those without resetting up (deleting the two partitions made and going through the whole setup again)?

[antidrugue]

Both ATI and ndiswrapper installation instructions are in my previous post.

[anthq]

I see, but I cant access the internet from the Debian OS, only XP...

[antidrugue]

Do you have a USB key? You can download the NDISWRAPPER components in XP and put them on the key. Then install NDISWRAPPER from the key in Linux.

Or if you used ext2 or ext3 filesystem for Debian, you can write directly to your Linux partition in Windows :
http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/
http://www.fs-driver.org/

[anthq]

OK...I got as far as compiling it but then as I do the 'make install'...

polarbear:/home/q/Desktop/nd# make install
make -C driver install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/q/Desktop/nd/driver'
Can't find kernel build files in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/build;
give the path to kernel build directory with
KBUILD=<path> argument to make
make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/q/Desktop/nd/driver'
make: *** [install] Error 2

I gues it cant find the Kernel build files? Where would they be?

[antidrugue]

Yes, do you have the kernel sources installed?
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...p/Installation

Your kernel sources are in there:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/mai...-source-2.4.27

you can download them from windows, and...