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Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning



On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:19:57PM -0400, Hershel Robinson wrote:
> > >I have a new machine on order. The more interesting items are:
> > >
> > >Mobo: Gigabyte 7VA KT400 + Sound/AGP8X/DDR400
> > >AMD Athlon XP 2000Mhz
> > >ATI Radeon 7500 64B/Dual Head
> > >UDMA 40Gig 7200RPM
> > >
> > >My first question is will I have any difficulty with these
> > hardware pieces?
> > >
> > You will probably have problems getting X to work if you just
> > use woody,
> > try Sarge (testing) which has a newer version of Xfree and a recent
> > stable kernel 2.4.20 or higher.
> 
> Any further thoughts on this? This is to be my first Debian install. Should
> I indeed use Sarge for the Xfree version?

I use Woody with a backported X 4.3.0. My Radeon 7500 works fine. I
haven't tried it with the standard woody X though.

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