Re: i810 in testing

2001-02-08 Thread Glenn Becker
Alvin, Thx for the info. In short I'm wanting to remove SuSE 6.4 from my work box and slap Debian on it, since SuSE has come to look ... pretty pale compared to my Debian setup at home. I originally moved to SuSE from Slack bec. I was totally inexperienced and the support for i810 on SuSE was r

Re: i810 in testing

2001-02-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya glenn.. what kind of i180 testing are you doing/planning todo ??? if get X11 up and running...for i810 or i815 chip sets... w/ XFree-3.3.x you do need that agpgart and XFCom_i810 driver w/ XFree-4.x i think it works out of the box 5 minutes work or so to get X11 up and abou

Re: i810 in testing

2001-02-07 Thread Colin Watson
Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >so is the XFree support for i810 fairly seamless in v4? again, it's >more needing to get this done fast bec of work constraints than an >unwillingness to tinker. i'm dealing with a blecched SuSE box that carries >most of the scars of my early days running Li

RE: i810 in testing

2001-02-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Feb-2001 Glenn Becker wrote: > > o, god, whew. it's been a BAD day for my brain! > > so is the XFree support for i810 fairly seamless in v4? again, it's > more needing to get this done fast bec of work constraints than an > unwillingness to tinker. i'm dealing with a blecched SuSE box that

RE: i810 in testing

2001-02-07 Thread Glenn Becker
o, god, whew. it's been a BAD day for my brain! so is the XFree support for i810 fairly seamless in v4? again, it's more needing to get this done fast bec of work constraints than an unwillingness to tinker. i'm dealing with a blecched SuSE box that carries most of the scars of my early days runn

RE: i810 in testing

2001-02-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Feb-2001 Glenn Becker wrote: > > so ... the xfree86-common package in testing, which is apparently > v. 4.0.2-1, isn't really XFree86 v.4 (or better than?)? the > xserver-xfree86 package shows the same v. number in testing. i'm confused! > > sorry - i don't mean to be dense. i thought i w

RE: i810 in testing

2001-02-07 Thread Glenn Becker
so ... the xfree86-common package in testing, which is apparently v. 4.0.2-1, isn't really XFree86 v.4 (or better than?)? the xserver-xfree86 package shows the same v. number in testing. i'm confused! sorry - i don't mean to be dense. i thought i was running 4. :-S g ___

RE: i810 in testing

2001-02-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Feb-2001 Glenn Becker wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm strongly considering switching over to Debian at work ... but my > machine here has one of those evilish Intel i810 video jobs ... any > reports of success or failure with this chip and X in testing? > you must use XF4 if you want this to work