On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 00:59 +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Niall O Broin wrote:
>> > hardware - I've no idea what graphics hardware is in this box, but
> > as it's current Dell hardware it's entirely possible that there's
> > no XFree support for it.
>> Unless this retired school teacher likes to frag things, X support
> will be fine - XFree's nv 2D driver works grand, as does its radeon
> driver[1].
>There is approximately 0 chance of a cheap Dell having anything other
than Intel Integrated Graphics (Extreme probably), which uses system
memory for graphics.
I think it usually works. I tend to avoid them like the plague, but
that's just me.
L.
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