Re: Debian and Dell?
On 2004-12-15 22:30:34 -0500, Ed Sutherland wrote:
> I just purchased a Dell for my home office and am interested in using
> Debian on a partition. As my only Linux experience comes from a Mac, I
> have some questions:
[...]
First, you should have asked if Debian was supported. With recent
Dell machines, like the GX280, you need to recompile a kernel so
that Ethernet is supported, and concerning XFree86, the official
Debian package doesn't support the new chipset (i915).
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