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"Christopher E" <sensory.access@×××××.com> posted |
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184c54640605131008g431b8541n67322a0ee6949470@××××××××××.com, excerpted |
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below, on Sat, 13 May 2006 13:08:56 -0400: |
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> Duncan, how would you go about seting up Gentoo on a computer that has |
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> 512mb ram, 70gb of harddrive space, windows on the first partition |
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> (XP). Has a Radeon ALL-in-Wonder 8500 DV (thats what shows up in |
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> windows device manger) mother board is a ASUS K8V Delux with the |
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> latest and last bios that had been made. |
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Well, you asked how I'd do it, which is rather different than what I'd |
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expect you to be willing to do! =8^). What I'd do: I'd change out that |
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AIW-8500 for something fully supported by the native drivers. I see it's |
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still an AGP board, which means the Radeon 9250 or similar. |
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I'd also kill the eXPrivacy, as I couldn't legally run it anyway, because |
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I couldn't agree to the EULA in any case, so it'd be of no use to me. |
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Give me freedomware or give me a good book to read instead, as computing |
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with slaveryware isn't something I'm interested in doing, nor could I now, |
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even if I was interested, and stay legal. |
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Well, you asked. =8^) |
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Down the road, one thing you may wish to look into with xorg 7.1 is that |
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it has an experimental 3D capable reverse-engineered driver for the |
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newer ATI chips. That might be better than the slaveryware drivers -- |
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when it's out (rc-3 just out yesterday), assuming your card is supported, |
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then. That's a solution that's probably a month or more out, reasonably, |
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however, to get 7.1 into ~arch, and have folks a bit more familiar with |
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things try it first, so they can be of help when you have issues. |
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Other than that, I'm not going to try a recommendation, as it's enough out |
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of my knowledge area to be unwise. Someone else likely has more |
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experience with that board, and/or the ATI slaveryware drivers. Now, if |
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you were asking about a Tyan s2885, I'd have a bit more to say. =8^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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