On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Martin Jackson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried Mandrake 6.1, and in general liked what I saw. I'm running Red
> Hat 6.1 now, and am considering switching. Unfortunately, when I first
> tried Mandrake, I was unfortunate enough to have a Cirrus 5446 graphics
> card, so my X display was all messed up.
Tere are work arounds for that you know..
> Questions:
>
> 1) Does Mandrake 7.0's XFree properly support the Cirrus 5446 chipset?
Unknown, I don't own one and have heard nothing either good or bad on the
matter.
> 2) Does Mandrake 7.0 support TrueType fonts in X out of the box?
They all do, post i forget when...
> 3) Does Mandrake 7.0 support wheelmice out of the box?
You still must configure imwheel :/
> 4) What's up with including both egcs 1.1.2 and gcc-2.95? Which one is
> the default?
gcc-2.95.3, it's so you can compile with either via
gcc -V
I don't know about anyone else but i was pretty sick of
uninstalling/installing them just to build something stuborn ;)
> Thanks in advance.
Sure
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