On Saturday 07 March 2015 03:45:29 am elcaseti . wrote:
I don't understand. It's clear that Exe
doesn't have drivers for many
sound cards & wifi cards. But, are you saying that regular Debian Jessie
with TDE installed later will provide drivers for most sound cards & wifi
cards? Thanks
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 07 March 2015 06:27:13 Robert Peters wrote:
> > Hello,
> > While trying yet again to get audio working I managed to clobber my
> > TDE 14 setup. Want to reinstall from live CD (on USB stick). Tried
> > the Ubuntu one; the installer didn't let me complete the partition
> > setup. Tried the most recent Ubuntu nightly; can't even get to the
> > GUI or installer program.
> > I don't care much for what I've seen of PCLinuxOS. Maybe I can mess
> > around with Debian/Exe again. But really, isn't there something I can
> > use and recommend to others that just works???? (i.e., with
> > functioning wifi and sound)
>
> My Jessie with TDE14 Just Worked. But you won't get sound and wi-fi with
> Exe.
> Exe is all free (as in beer). Install Jessie, then TDE.
>
> Lisi
This image has non-free firmware, helps with unsupported , by Debian,
hardware. Install just the base + standard..put TDE on top.
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/
and some gasp ! reading :-) :
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s04.html.en
--
Peace,
Greg