go ahead an upgrade to potato. i've been using it for about 6mo and
it's been very stable.
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 09:43:28PM -0500, Br. Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
> I need your advice. I have an Intel i810 chipset and the driver requires
> XFree86 version 3.3.6, but slink has 3.3.2. The driver also requires a
> kernel module which is for 2.2 kernels, while slink has 2.0 kernels.
> Additionally, the Intel support site offers the driver, and they say the
> i810 driver also needs glibc2.1, presumably because they distribute it as a
> binary file compiled for glibc2.1. But slink only has glibc2.0.
>
> First question: Do I really need glibc2.1, or can I build XFree86 and the
> driver with glibc2.0? I notice two different versions of the 3.3.6 binaries
> for depending on which version of glibc. Unfortunately I didn't see the i810
> driver in the binary directories, but I did find it in the Xfree86 sources.
>
> For the best stability, would it be better to try to keep glibc 2.0 and
> build the driver on slink, or would the best solution to be to upgrade to
> potato, which has kernel 2.2 and glibc2.1, but is not the stable version and
> just install the binary from Intel? No matter what I will have to upgrade
> the kernel to 2.2 to run the agpgart kernel module.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Br. Chuck Zmudzinski
>
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