On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 09:02:09 -0600, Ed Wilts said
> To make matters worse, if you do install the driver yourself and then do an
> upgrade to XFree, your driver will be overwritten and the hang is so severe
> that you can do nothing but power off - you can't switch to an alternate
> console of use any of the wonderful contorted keystrokes to exit X. You
> better not be in run level 5 in inittab or you'll be really, really screwed
> unless you're an expert and able to go through a recovery.
Little know fact: in a bind, when lilo asks you which image to boot, you can
append the run level. For example:
linux 3
would boot your lilo tag in run level three.
> I find it amazing that Mandrake will ship Netscape, binary only, when there
> is a good GPL alternative (Konqueror) but will not ship a freely
> distributable binary-only driver for which there is no alternative short of
> replacing the hardware.
My opinion: mozilla works great.. better than netscape. I'd hope mozilla is
used in the next release instead, as I end up installing it anyway.
btw, I'm waiting for the next mandrake beta as a royally screwed up my system
trying to upgrade rpm to be able to use the XFree 4.0.2 rpm's that are all rpm
v4. This was all in trying to make my g450 work. After that, I read somewhere
that I had to use the #2 output in order to use X with it.
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