On Wed, 07 Jan 2004, Stephane Dudzinski wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 10:24, Brendan Halpin wrote:
> > I'm a perpetual newbie as a sys-admin, and am really only looking
> > for a good platform to run emacs on: where should I go?
>> Well, the only critical point to me was the XFree 4.3 config (only
> available in experimental) as new Dell machines come with Intel
> 8{4,5,7}X chipsets. And 4.2 just don't support them.
Yeah, I have/had this problem (though it wasn't a Dell) as my current mobo
is an i845GE. It's not that much hassle once you know it's coming.
Assuming you don't want to run sid you'll need a backport of the
xserver-xfree86 and associated packages to get it working.
Another potential stumbler is the network card. Some Dell machines come
with the e1000/e100 intel NICs onboard. If this is one, you'll need a
driver on disk to perform the network installation and then if you upgrade
the kernel you'll need to compile the driver by hand (until the 2.4.20
which finally includes it).
I haven't tried it but Colm MacCarthaigh has a kernel-image package here
along with a matching e1000 driver package:
http://apt.heanet.ie/dists/heanet/contrib/binary-i386/base/
looks like it's not got the latest local exploit fixed as yet. This has
proved quite a big hassle for a friend of late.
Gavin
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