Got my first Debian Linux (squeeze) based rig online and working, so I have a completely Microsoft-free system now. :)

Materials I found helpful:
- the starting post of this thread
- this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3359.msg47174#msg47174

The hardest part for me personally, as it was mostly undocumented, was understanding that I need to start "cgminer" as a regular user (not root) and issue the commands from a local X session (not SSH).

Before that, I was vainly trying to understand why the following error occurred:


As soon as I changed to user instead of root, and local console instead of SSH, all the things which should have, started working.