I have a Dell Laptop to, but I got hold of the red hat package for the Neomagic X server and installed it using Alien.
Works like a dream, I get 1028 by 756 (or whatever). It never has crashed yet, even though I give it some grief... I picked up the package from the followig site (but it is available in Debian Unstable): http://www.precisioninsight.com/products.html John Stevenson "David S. Zelinsky" wrote: > > A friend of mine installed hamm on a Dell laptop with Neomagic video. He got > X configured with the VGA16 server. The X server seemed to work fine, but the > machine would invariably hang, shortly after quitting X or switching to > another virtual console. By "hang", I mean that ugly state where the keyboard > and mouse don't respond, and a hard reboot is needed. > * The Debian was a 2.0 CD from Cheap Bytes -- not the "Official Debian", > but C.B.'s own, with their own installation program. I was struck by > some odities, such as the absence of all the stuff I'm used to in the > system logs (I'm running "official" hamm at home). Could there be > anything weird about this Cheap Bytes installation that's related to the > X problem? This could have been a problem, perhaps if you got network ability you could have updated the install from a debian mirror, hopefully resolving any errors in libs etc.. > * I didn't think of checking the BIOS settings, for things like APM. Could > a broken APM cause symptoms like this? Then again, isn't APM disabled in > kernel-images that ship with Debian? I didnt have any problems with the default kernel and APM, but then again I have turned off my APM settings, as it says in the debian install instructions.... So there are a number of possibilities why you did not have success, none of them can be attributed to the quality of debian. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
