Re: [PLUG] debian dist-upgrade from woody (stable) to sarge (testing) report

[John McElroy <jmcelroy@macelroy.net>]

I've done this as well and it went very smoothly since I had not installed any packages other than offical Debian packages.

(off topic)
Darxus, as I recall from a posting a month or so ago, you installed a new nvidia GeForce3 video card into a debian machine.  Did you have any difficulties?  Could you please briefly describe what was required.

I'm asking because I've put together a new pc and am having trouble with X under debian using the ATI Radeon 8500LE video card.  I was hoping that maybe I could get a little insight into what was required for the GeForce to apply it to the Radeon.

If anyone else has set up debian to use the 8500LE or any other ATI Radeon video card, please provide a few tips.

I know ATI has posted Linux 'drivers' for the 8500LE, which I've tried but have been unable to make work at all.  The included documentation was not very helpful (to me anyway).

Thanks!



On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 16:26:30 -0400
Darxus@chaosreigns.com wrote:

> On 10/09, christophe barbe wrote:
> > Me too. That said it seems hard to believe that linkchecker was an
> > official package. I can't find it in the potato archives
> >    ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/web/
> > So let say that debian is perfect ;-)
> 
> Note that I said that I believed it was an official debian package.  I was
> uncertain enough to be sure to put the "I believe part in there".  What you
> did jogged my memory, and I looked around, and jogged my memory more.
> 
> I believe you are correct.  The linkchecker tarball had a debian directory,
> and I built the debian package using that.  It was screwed up - I had to
> create /home/calvin to get it to build.  So Debian *is* perfect :)  
> (no problems upgrading that were caused by official Debian packages) 
> 
> -- 
> "It's never too late to panic."
> http://www.ChaosReigns.com
> 
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