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). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]