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Re: Getting X to work on Dell Lattitude C840 needs X server released yesterday.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oliver Thomas)
Mon Sep 16 15:14:51 2002
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:15:07 -0400
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Cc: Oliver Thomas <othomas@mit.edu>, release-team@mit.edu, owls@mit.edu,
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To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
From: Oliver Thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
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Not sure if this is relevant, but I'm pretty sure I ran RedHat/XFree86
successfully more than six months ago on a Dell Inspiron 8100 with a
GeForce2go card and a UXGA display using drivers/rpms downloaded
directly from Nvidia. The Nvidia drivers required XFree 4.0.1 or higher
at the time.
Am I missing something here? Is this about getting the installer to
work and not about getting X to work in general?
Oliver
On Monday, September 16, 2002, at 03:03 PM, Bill Cattey wrote:
> Looking at the documentation that ships with XFree86 version 4.2.1, it
> seems that although the nv enhancement is in the source tree, it's not
> in the branch that got released for 4.2.1. GRR!
>
> I guess we can try 4.2.1, but we may just have to resign ourselves to
> the answer: "Sorry, you have to check out an X server from the
> development source tree and built it yourself for the C840, and we
> don't
> do that."
>
> -wdc
>
