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 -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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