GiaThnYgeia composed on 2017-04-11 08:39 (UTC-0400):
Felix Miata:
Did including iomem=relaxed on your cmdline solve your problem, or did
it not?
I wouldn't know, the person for which I installed Debian for will not
dare switch to Stretch after this experience, will not even talk about
it.
If yes, say so.
Are you talking to me?
Who else would I be writing to? You started the thread:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/04/msg00091.html
Presumably, you were the "I" with the Prosavage8 S3 Graphics problem about which
you wrote.
Supporting ancient hardware forever is not going to happen.
A 2.33Mhz Celeron pc is by no means ancient compared to the Debian claims.
While that CPU may well be considered non-ancient, Debian dropped the ball when
it integrated upstream's KMS without commensurate resources necessary to adapt
and maintain drivers for all gfxchips other than those from AMD/ATI, Intel and
NVidia. Support for the ~18 year old Prosavage8 S3 Graphics gfxchip that is the
reason for this thread's inception has obviously become inadequate, as it has
for a non-trivial number of other gfxchips designed 15-20 years ago.
--
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