On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 08:40:06AM -0400, David Teague wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Paul McHale wrote: > > > If you have bizaar hardware, redhat (I believe) has more drivers. > > Redhat has more packages but this may be an arguement for alien. > > Paul > > I have acquaintances who never did get X up under Red Hat using the > SiS6326 card. That card is apparently S3 based, but SiS does > something really bizarre with it. > > However, one of my students got X up (late last > winter) with Debian after a bit of fiddling. He replaced the 3.3.2 X > server with the 3.3.3.1 server, then modified the XF86config file to > make the thing work well. > > I understand that RH 6 has 3.3.3 X. I don't know about specific > SiS6326 support. > > I would like to have a comparison of device support available from > Red Hat with that from Debian. Can you address this? Or perhaps > someone on this list can answer this.
Red Hat tends to release with newer stuff than Debian--of course it is often partially broken, which tends to indicate that they do less testing before release. Debian unstable has newer versions of packages than the stable version (such as X 3.3.4). You can also find newer versions of Debian slink (stable) packages in proposed-updates or at places like (put this in /etc/apt/sources.listg): deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/ You will find X 3.3.3 here, for instance. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
