From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: geoff bagley Subject: Re: TFT display on Debian GNU/Linux Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 09:37:12 +0200 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <200308310512.h7V5Brt2263091@www2.wanadoo.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200308310512.h7V5Brt2263091@www2.wanadoo.be> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Heimo Claasen Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org >(After weeks of worktime wasted we gave up on making Debian/Woody work >with a combine of a quite renowned video card and ditto high-res monitor; >the "commercial" distros - Mandrake, SuSE, RH - hadn't any problem with >that.) Thanks to you both. I am sorry that your efforts were not rewarded. Is there a simple reason why the "commercial distros" are able to do this ? Maybe they are using non-GPL software that we would not wish to see in Debian. Is the problem only with Woody ? How will other versions of Debian cope with this ? Best regards -- Geoff Bagley G3FHL - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs