...
> The computer of the demonstration point has been brought by the LL people,
> too. I just needed to set up a propper Debian system. I decided to use the
> stable release (You might remember AJ's warning [2], that things will break,
> when libc6 moves to testing), and use and show apt-pinning, but I had some
> problems with the graphics card. It was some kind of ATI 128 card, which was
> not supported by stables XFree 4.1. I tried to run it with the vesa and the
> framebuffer driver, but both times X crashed several times. Then I found
> out, that sarge's XFree 4.2 would support this chipset with the ati driver,
> and so I installed testings XFree. But this didn't solved the problem. I
> realy thought the hardware has been broken while transporting it - I phoned
> the guy who used this machine daily, but he didn't had a good idea, too.
...
If Debian needs a Linux laptop for presentations just ask me. I can try
to get one from Xtops.DE (I'm also trying to get a beamer but
currently this is much to expensive).
Werner
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