Re: X Windows on a Dell Dimension

[Jim Hayward <jimhayward earthlink net>]

On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 10:42, Daryl Lee wrote:

> Any suggestions (other than buying a separate video card)?

I'm going to have to turn this into a form response to questions about
the i845G chipset.

>From a prior posting of mine....

The i845 chipset is not supported by XFree86 4.2.0. Mike back ported an
initial driver from XFree86 CVS to the XFree86 release included with
8.0. This driver is not very likely to work for most people. The i845
chipset will not be officially supported until the release of XFree86
4.3.0.

If you feel REALLY daring you can try Mike's current XFree86 CVS RPM's.
Note the name of the directory. :-P Read all of the readme file in the
directory below before even considering trying these. These RPM's are
for the most part for people who wish to contribute to bug testing for
the next release. 

ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/extremely-unstable-development-code

Regards,
        Jim H