[plug] debian installed - where to now?!

[Andrew Howell]

I've got Debian sid(unstable) running with XFree 4 with no problems (didn't
have to do anything to get it to work) on the same graphics chip on a Dell
Inspirion 4000.

I'd definitely recommend you upgrade to XFree 4 if at all possible.

Andrew

On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 09:02:08PM -0800, Wayne Vovil wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I wouldn't mind a copy of anything that will help. The card is ATI Rage Mobility 128. I went to xfree web site and found that accelaerated support is supposed to be available from Xfree 3.3.6.
> 
> Wayne
> 
> > Peter Wilsmore <djinn at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 07:48:36 +0800
> > plug at plug.linux.org.au Re: [plug] debian installed - where to now?!Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> >
> >On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 06:24:11AM -0800, Wayne Vovil wrote:
> >> Hi
> >> 
> >> Well Debian 2.2r2 is installed on my DELL Latitude C600 notebook (850 Mhz, 25kMB RAM, 10GB HDD, DVD). It didn't recognise my Video card, and asked if it should make VGA16-X the default (I said no).
> >> 
> >
> >In order to fix your video problems you have another option other than 
> >the one already suggested - you can use the frame buffer device with
> >vesa(2) support. This means you can not get hardware acceleration but 
> >most people do not use this anyway. If you don't feel like reading 
> >endless documentation on how to configure this to try and work it out 
> >for your self then email me and I well send you something that I wrote 
> >up that should help a little.
> >
> >thanks,
> >  the Djinn
> 
> 
> 
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