Well, despite the risk of being screamed at from the prestigious: Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior
at Princeton, I'd still like to gather courage and ask a question. I helped a colleague this afternoon install 2.2r2 on his new Dell Optiplex GX110. The installation went very smoothly indeed. I hadn't done an install from scratch with potato, and I was really impressed. The problem, though, is getting X working. This is a known issue, I think. These machines seem to have Intel i810 video cards, which are not successfully autodetected by anXious. I've looked around on the web and found some information, but nothing specific to Debian. If I understand correctly, these cards need a kernel module called `agpgart' and they need the SVGA server. But I also gather that Intel has released their own version of agpgart.o as well as their own X server for the i810 chipset (XFCom_810). The combination of these two is said to yield better performance, and the instructions on the Intel web-site seem fairly clear. But I thought I should check here before plunging in, to see if anybody has experience doing this on a Debian system, or if any of you unfailingly kind and knowledgeable people had any advice or warnings to offer. Thank you, Jim McCloskey
