Hi, all. [ sorry if you got this twice- I sent it to debian-user first, by mistake :-( ]
Just got a good deal on a Dell 8600 with a WUXGA display (1920x1200). Got it running at 1600x1200 with Xandros 1.0 (Debian-based, the former Corel Linux, and apparently what LindowsOS is based on), but trying to get it to the full width. lspci says it has an unknown NVidia chipset... 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0324 (rev a1) Does anyone know if this chip is handled in the newer kernels (I ran 2.6.0 on my last laptop for a while, but can't seem to get xandros to come up off a customized kernel) or a newer version of XFree86. I've poked around tuxmobil etc, and there's supposed to be a NVidia driver, but it's not clear that it would work with this model, plus I'd rather avoid a proprietary driver (I've not been able to back out installs of proprietary software very well in the past). Any help (experience or speculation) appreciated, especially combos and configs (XF86Config-4 and kernel) known to work on this (a bit too proprietary in retrospect) beast. Oh, I'm running Xandros 1.0 but with a lot of stuff upgraded to debian testing. Any tips for vanilla Debian are also welcome, as I wouldn't mind switching back to that (I'm not getting that much use out of the Xandros added-value stuff, except for eye-candy, which is readily available elsewhere). By the way, Xandros' X startup seems to have a pretty good try-and-fallback startup system for X; I'm trying to figure out how it works. -- Tony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
