Re: [Hampshire] Debian Woody

On Monday 26 Feb 2007 15:15, Alan Pope wrote:
> 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?


I don't at this moment have access to the computer (I am at home and it is
chez its owner 11 miles away), so can't check the details, but no, it is not
in fact the case, since I was in error in supposing that Libranet 2.8.1 would
use woody because 3 uses sarge. 2.8.1 uses sarge, but with a 2.4 kernel. (3
uses sarge with the 2.6.11-ln.std kernel. Which presumably just means
2.6.11? The other is the answer to uname -r.)

But I'll try to remember to look. (I am currently practically sleepwalking so
shall be lucky if I can achieve the minimum on Friday, which is when I am
next there.)

Thanks for all the help Al - and everyone else too.

Lisi