Re: [Hampshire] Debian Woody

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Author: Alan Pope
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Debian Woody

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On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 14:48 +0000, Tony Whitmore wrote:
> Alan Pope wrote:
>
> > I find it very difficult to to believe that Woody will drive any video
> > card better than sarge (or for that matter kubuntu). It may be that it
> > works out of the box with woody, and doesn't appear to with sarge or
> > kubuntu but I suspect it can be made to.
>
> There were some old cards that were supported by older versions of
> XFree86 v3 that aren't supported in newer releases of XFree86 v4 or
> X.org. Support was dropped due to a lack of maintainer or a perception
> that there were not significant numbers of cards left in use. XFree86 v3
> was in Woody, but not Sarge and has never been near Ubuntu.
>


Thanks for that. Is this the case Lisi? What video card does this PC
have? What does lspci report it as?

Cheers,
Al.