Debian on G75V

[CaptainStone]

Hi folks,

is there anyone out there, who got it to run?

I try since days and have a lot of problems.

- Grub down want to be installed at the SSD
- I always have to run 'nvidia-xconfig' every start, otherwise there is just an empty screen without menus
- wireless mouse is just sometimes working,
etc, etc.

Hope I can find an companion in misfortune,

the Captain

P.S. Installed Debian wheezy with Gnome 3

[Zygomorphic]

I might take you up on it if I can't get everything configured myself...best way to learn is to try. 🙂

[tagrat]

Zygomorphic wrote:
I am going to give Ubuntu 12.04.1 another go. I left the Ubuntu camp because since Ubuntu 10.10 the quality of each release was worse than the one before it. They got so bad that it was unusable. I went to Fedora, which works well, but is much harder to configure everything, and getting the nVidia drivers working is all but impossible ... for me at least. Maybe with the slight version change things will get better ... I'll see and post my thoughts when I get it installed.

I've gotten tired of Ubuntu myself - I hate the new UI. I switched to Mint. Might I suggest running virtualbox on the laptop and mint as a guest? That's what I do and it runs extremely well. No muss, no fuss, don't gather no dust.

[Zygomorphic]

tagrat wrote:
I've gotten tired of Ubuntu myself - I hate the new UI. I switched to Mint. Might I suggest running virtualbox on the laptop and mint as a guest? That's what I do and it runs extremely well. No muss, no fuss, don't gather no dust.

I do that too...but in the interests of software freedom I like the ability to run without Windows...and I like the performance bare-metal provides. Sure, I know that on my flame-thrower laptop a Win8 VM is faster than my old laptop :cool:, but native Win 8 (and LINUX) is faster still.

Thinking about Mint, may try if Ubuntu 12.04.1 is still as unstable as Ubuntu 12.04 was. Will definitely switch Ubuntu to LXDE desktop though! I tried Kubuntu, but the stability is/was pretty bad. It seems that adding the other DMs later is more stable.

[Zygomorphic]

Running Ubuntu 12.04.1 on my G53SX - perfection out of the box. Canonical finally got it right! Looks great, runs great, glad it finally got fixed! 🙂

[rabbert_klein]

Zygomorphic wrote:
Running Ubuntu 12.04.1 on my G53SX - perfection out of the box. Canonical finally got it right! Looks great, runs great, glad it finally got fixed! 🙂

Now all we need is Valve to release the Linux Steam client!

[Zygomorphic]

rabbert.klein wrote:
Now all we need is Valve to release the Linux Steam client!

Or we need WINE to up the ante! I use LINUX for all my needs, it works very well and the price is right! I have configured the system to use as little as 350-400 MB of RAM at idle desktop...seen that on Windows lately? 😄

[CaptainStone]

rabbert.klein wrote:

I've got full nVidia support with the 304.43 drivers, Fn Keys work mostly, brightness controls and all that good stuff.

The nVidia driver works really fine. But I miss access to most of the Fn Keys (brightness, sound, etc.). Did you some configuration by your own to fix that?

The Captain

[rabbert_klein]

CaptainStone wrote:
The nVidia driver works really fine. But I miss access to most of the Fn Keys (brightness, sound, etc.). Did you some configuration by your own to fix that?

The Captain

I did have to do anything to get the wireless, vol up/down and vol mute to work but there are some things that need to be done in order to get brightness working.

Here is what I had to do to get that working, note that I'm running Kubuntu so this may not apply exactly to Ubuntu.

1. navigate to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d
2. Do a "ls" to see if you have a xorg.conf there (I've learned that the newer versions of xorg are not dependant on this file anymore)
2. if one exists edit it as sudo in your editor of choice, if not create one with that editor.
3. Append or add the following into the file:

# xorg.xconf to add mointor brightness controls


Section "Screen"
	Identifier 	"Screen0"
	Device		"Device0"
	Monitor		"Monitor0"
	Option	"DPI" 	"90 x 90"
        Option	"RegistryDwords"	"EnableBrightnessControl=1"
	Option	"nologo"	"true"
EndSection

The DPI option reduces the fonts system wide to the normal 90 x 90 and isn't required, the nologo removes the nvidia splash if you see it at boot which I did.

The line: Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1" is what physically enables the brightness up and down

So in theory all you would need if you don't care about my other options

# xorg.xconf to add mointor brightness controls


Section "Screen"
	Identifier 	"Screen0"
	Device		"Device0"
	Monitor		"Monitor0"
        Option	"RegistryDwords"	"EnableBrightnessControl=1"
EndSection

4. Save it
5. Restart X or reboot

[Zygomorphic]

Edited your post so that people could read it. Thanks for the advice - +1 rep! 🙂

[CaptainStone]

Hi rabbat.klein (what does it mean?)

rabbert.klein wrote:

Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1"

In Debian I changed the /etc/X11/xorg.conf with your new Screen Parameters and it's working perfectly 😉
Thanks a lot for this hint!

And I'm boltly enough to ask you, how did you fix the volume FN keys?

The Captain