On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:37:53 -0400 (EDT) Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, what video card makers can debian sid just use out of > the box without all of this aggravation? I had a trident vga with this > machine earlier and if that's a good one, it will be easier to replace a > monitor and change out a video card than what's going on over here now. > The common dri stuff compiled and built well enough but modules aren't > available for kernel 2.6.12-1-speakup-686 that I can find and download > anywhere. Next time modules will be available is when that all goes up to > 2.6.17-x and I don't know when that will be. No, I haven't yet succeded > in building a kernel and patching it with speakup, when I try that project > I think will be on a day with nothing else I'm trying to do so if it > doesn't work, neither does the failure break anything permanently. > gnopernicus along with gnome-speech and festival can get gnome talking if > we don't have these video problems to contend with ahead of time. I can > sometimes get sighted assistance that's had more experience than I've had > to date but tonight isn't one of these times and this has been an ongoing > project for a few months. > Debian will support all cards. dri (accelerated 3d) is supported for all cards that have a dri driver available in the kernel. Have a look under /lib/modules/<kernel version>/kernel/drivers/char/drm/ > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
