From: "Andre Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My friend has got this Dell Inspiron 2500, and I have some problems > installing potato (don't want woody yet) on it. The stock kernel
Why not? There's no good reason to avoid woody. Potato is way too old, now. > 2.2.19 hangs at the initialization of the md (raid) driver, so I > installed 2.2.19-idepci. Absolutely correct. And this is the only good reason for using potato at all - the 2.2.19-idepci kernel is the one I had the least trouble with. 2.4.16-586 in Woody worked ok, too. Everything else has had to be majorly tweaked by me. > Which boots, but doesn't seem to have i810 or ipx/ncpfs support... I don't know about ipx/ncpfs, since I haven't tried them (though I have compiled kernels with ipx built in, so the support is there), but i810 is only fully supported (using agpgart) on the 2.4 kernels. > Is it possible to pass a kernel option or something so > that md does not load with the stock kernel 2.2.19? Possibly, but it isn't going to fix your i810. > Has anyone a working configuration for XFree < 4 for this machine? It > would be xserver-svga then, wouldn't it? There is no such beast. You can get vga mode on XFree 3.x, but save yourself the hassle and install woody. -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
