On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Mark Whidby wrote:
Hi, Has anyone had any experience of SL (or Centos / RHEL) on the new Dell Optiplex 755 machines? Specifically does X work?
We got a 755 for testing a couple of days before I went on vacation (the last two weeks). In the short time I had to play with it I found that plain 5.0 PXE installation couldn't drive the new network hardware, but the kernel in 5.1alpha could. I assume that the one in 5.1beta/beta2/release will also drive the network stuff but I've not had time to check yet (still catching up on my e-mail).
We *NEVER* have any luck with onboard Intel graphics so we stick to add-in cards. I like the ATI X300/X600 cards which Dell used to ship but sadly those are now hard to find. The newer X1050/X1300 (etc) cards will work with the VESA driver but then you get no fast 3D support... Of course using the ATI proprietry driver migth solve that if I could be bothered.
[ Likewise every Nvidia card I seem to be able to buy seems now too new to get decent support from the Xorg driver. I dislike te proprietory drivers because updates to e.g. kernels are then less trivial... ]
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