On Fri, 26 May 2000, you wrote:
Well, a post in html doesn't help matters. Many people on this list cannot
read it on their mail clients. Some people have filters to throw it away. For
example, I found your mail in my trash bin, purely by accident.
XFree86 3.3.6 should work with your intel 810. Please realize that the 810 is
not very good hardware and has presented problems for all linux distros.
XFree86 version 4 is still an experimentally supported thing in this version,
and bug reports for 3.3.6 will receive attention while 4.0 will probably
receive attention in future distributions. I strongly recommend use of 3.3.6
until 4.0 matures a bit more.
You could try SuSE or Debian. I doubt if you will find the results much
better. The 810 is a problematic chipset, and you may know that intel has
recalled the 820 boards altogether and that RESPONSIBLE resellers offer memory
specifically certified for the 810 because quite a lot of the SDRAM DIMM memory
out there will not work with the 810. I built a few 810 Chipset computers,
installed windows 98 for my customers, and gave them a warranty that covered
ONLY windows use, for a bargain price--my cost, just to get rid of them. I
also warned my customers about the deficiencies and shortcomings of the
technology employed in those computers. I won't be building any more of them.
What you are using is a Beta version.... Which means that your bug report was
seen and will be given attention before the final release. Sending an
acknowledgement for bugs is not always done.... It would be wasteful of
bandwidth.
Actually your English is understandable and you have no need to apologize for
it. Your expectations of the distribution seem to be quite a bit more advanced
along the "bleeding edge" than the distribution is.
So, try 3.3.6 for XFree86 and most of your problems should disappear. The
partitioning errors I have seen myself and come from duplicate mount names more
frequently than anything else, though a more graceful way of handling that
error is desirable..... It is important to assure that each partition has its
own mount point (except for swap partitions).
Civileme
