Ditching FC3... for now =(

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Fri Dec 3 03:05:07 UTC 2004


John Summerfield wrote:
> On Friday 03 December 2004 00:31, Randy McDonald wrote:
> 
>>My only complaint is that I wish the
>>default install had a sshd up and configured, kinda essential for
>>remote administaration.
> 
> 
> I said that on the list, and mdz or someone said "No." Several times.
> 
> My wife uses it, my daughter took one look and asked "Where do I get that?" 
> and I've installed it on a Dell with an i815 chipset and integrated graphics.
> 
> Don't get anything with an Intel i810 or i815 chipset; I have several (all 
> ombord graphics) and none of them works well at present with any Linux I've 
> tried. In particular, one has seen SuSE 9, Mandrake 10, Nahant, Mepis and all 
> have graphics problems, as does the Dell with Ubuntu.

The 815 used to work great using RHL. I never had any luck w/ Debian 
using this 815 chipset. Now that the 815 is broken again, but might be 
fixed soon, it might be worth keeping this chipset. right now, this 
problem is pretty frustrating though.
Since the problem seems to be present in multi-distributions, I guess 
having this problem is not that easy to concentrate the breakage within 
Fedora.

Jim

> 
> I won't be using Ubuntu a my primary desktop OS because I want supported KDE, 
> but other than that it's as good as I've seen and a near match for OS X.
> 
> ps Daughter installed hers the other day. II took one support call whn she was 
> id disk partitioning. She was setting up dual boot on a two-disk Pentium II.
> 
> 
> 


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