[3499] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Getting X to work on Dell Lattitude C840 needs X server released yesterday.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oliver Thomas)
Mon Sep 16 16:04:20 2002
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 16:04:34 -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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> As a pretty strongly entrenched rule, Athena does not fetch binary-only
> custom X servers off the net, nor does it build custom X servers from
> source. This is because we're trying not to invest a lot of
> hand-tooling to support non-mainstream stuff. We try to minimize the
> number of hacks beyond what stock Red Hat ships.
fair enough.
> I think we need to mark the Dell C840 as, "Does not run Athena linux.
> Requires either a proprietary video driver, or building X from source."
That's fine. Given that some people may have already bought the C840,
we may also want to include a quick note to say what would happen if
you did run Athena Linux on it. Presumably it is possible to get
XFree86 to work using the Nvidia drivers and instructions, but those
would get blown away in future updates? We should warn people of this.
There hasn't been a huge rush for the C840's and the overlap with Linux
afficionados is probably small, but it only takes a few to make it
worthwhile to have set expectations ahead of time.
oliver
