On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 07:59:42PM -0700, Adam Weston wrote: > (Sorry in advance, this pissy post is the result of extreme frustration) > > I am a new Debian user and have been trying without success to get a > working configuration for X.
There is a mailing list for folks in your situation; it is [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The manufacturer of the chipset on my video card provides drivers for SuSE, > RedHat, and Mandrake. Will one of these work with Debian? (not that I have > any way to download them) They are found at: > http://www.powervr.com/Downloads.asp > __/ VIDEO CARD \___________________________________________ > | | > | Hercules Prophet 4500 Version 7.89 | > | | > | Video BIOS version: PowerVR KYRO II Bios Rev 01.107 | You unfortunately have been saddled with a card for which there are no freely-licensed/open-source drivers. This is an unfriendly attitude for the card manufacturer to adopt, but there you go. To my knowledge no one has attempted to package the non-free Kyro driver for Debian. They may even be legally prevented from doing so by the license on this driver. My recommendation is either to switch video cards or switch Linux distributions. -- G. Branden Robinson | The noble soul has reverence for Debian GNU/Linux | itself. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
msg05661/pgp00000.pgp
Description: PGP signature
