Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato
Andre Berger wrote:
>
>>>installing potato (don't want woody yet) on it. The stock kernel
>>
>>Why not? There's no good reason to avoid woody. Potato is way too old,
>>now.
>
> I'm a stability freak :)
You obviously belong on the Debian development team, since woody is
extremely stable. :-) Only a debian developer would consider it
not-ready-for-primetime.
...
>>There is no such beast. You can get vga mode on XFree 3.x, but save
>>yourself the hassle and install woody.
>
>
> Good advice, but too late.
>
> Xfree 3.3.x is theoretically possible using the "i810gtt" kernel AGP
> timimg patch from Intel (i810gtt-0.1-6.src.rpm) in conjunction with
> Intel's "XFcom_810" server. Did not do that to myself though but
> installed XFree86 4.1 for potato... :)
Wow. I have to admit I never thought to check Intel's site for such a
thing. I can't imagine why they would have gone to the trouble of
creating a server for 3.3.6 when it's been possible to install XFree86
4.x for ages (can't actually remember when it was first available in a
reasonably stable form, but I know it was back when I was still playing
with Corel Linux).
Installing woody, 2.4.16-586, and XFree86 4.1 would still have been
easier...
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derek
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