Mark M wrote:
Faheem Mitha schreef:I'd greatly appreciate hearing about people's experiences of success withDebian on Dell, and related advice, suggestions, and working configurations. Thanks in advance.I installed debian on a Optiplex GX240. No problems whatsoever. Never tried X though. Happily running a email server for about 250 users.
The Optiplex GX270 has integrated Intel 82865G video, and I've not had much success getting it to work in X; the best I've been able to do with Sarge, unstable, 2.4.x, 2.6, Knoppix, the i810 driver, and the vesa driver, has been 1024x768x8-bit color, or 600x480x15bit color. Haven't found any solutions on the web, except possibly a driver from Intel's web site, but it requires a 2.4 kernel and I've already upgraded to 2.6 and I haven't decided yet if I want to try going back just for decent video. Otherwise, everything seems to work fine.
-- Kent