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Re: Sarge on Compaq Proliant 1850R with PCI video card



On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:59:02PM -0500, Trey Perrin wrote:
> I tried several S3 video cards as well, all with exactly the same result.
> 
> I am trying to contact HP. However, I fear their response will be 
> something along the lines of:  "We don't support Debian on hardware that 
> old!"
> 
> I grabbed the Etch kernel source, built and installed a 2.6.18 kernel, 
> and it works. The problem seems to have been fixed somewhere between 
> 2.6.8 and 2.6.18. Exactly where, I'm not sure, but it's definitely a 
> problem with the kernel version.
> 
Hmmm.  I did not realize that your machine was "obsolete", though I
guess the fact that you were messing with a PCI video card should have
been a clue :-)

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
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