folks-
thanks to the cd's from jaswinder, the upgrade from debian 2.1
(called "slink") to "potato" (which will soon be called debian 2.2)
was relatively smooth. (one problem was with libpam0g, but since i
could deal with it, i think anybody can:))
my major motivation for doing the upgrade was to be able to run X,
which was not running (save for vanilla vga16) since the intel 810
graphics chipset on my new motherboard is not supported by kernels
less than 2.2 (which includes the debian slink distribution).
downloading the intel 810 drivers and installing them also was ok,
although i needed to compile the module "agpgart.o" for which i
needed the 2.2.15 source. (heck it's 69 MB! 2.0.36 was only 15MB)
finally, when i made the requisite changes to XF86config file, and
ran "startx" it didn't work! it said hostname invalid, and then
socket not found, and then "check if X server is already running"
blah blah.
so, what do i do now?
tia-
akr
ps: should i be doing an mknod /dev/agp or something before running X?
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