Re: xorg

2004-12-26 Thread Matt Barry
Using these packages with the radeon driver; works smoothly, video overlay and radeon dual-head support (mergedfb) working fine.. mb On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 22:35 +0200, cancer wrote: has anybody tried out these xorg packages?: deb http://debian.linux-systeme.com unstable main deb-src

Re: Debian sid and risk management

2004-12-26 Thread Matt Barry
On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 10:05 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: [snip] Sid is probably not the right choice if you need to run a nuclear defense grid, but for day to day work on the desktop and even on servers, it's plenty stable enough in my experience. I agree with this, with the caveat that

Re: X.org ----- Xfree

2004-12-14 Thread Matt Barry
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 17:08 +, Thomas Adam wrote: --- Johan Kullstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for it. Look up debian and ibm thinkpad t42 2378fvu sometime. I find it more interesting that because of the Xorg/XFree86 issue, more and more people are saying that they *do* need Xorg,

Re: VPN from win to Linux server: PPTP or OpenVPN or..?

2004-11-12 Thread Matt Barry
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 17:17 +, Joao Clemente wrote: So, anyone advicing PPTP over OpenVPN? If so, wich server? Poptop? Thanks Joao Clemente I use Poptop in several capacities on a mostly Windows-based network; to get it working (with encryption) you'll need the pptpd package (for poptop

Re: PCIe and Linux kernel

2004-10-29 Thread Matt Barry
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 13:34 -0400, Colin wrote: Matt Barry wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 11:51 +0100, Lee Redmayne wrote: I've just got a lovely new beastie which has a PCI-Express Asus Radeon X600 in it... Running Sarge 2.6.8-1.i386 and XF86 4.3.0.1, P4 530, 512MB, 80GB SATA drive etc etc

Re: Radeon X600

2004-10-28 Thread Matt Barry
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 11:51 +0100, Lee Redmayne wrote: I've just got a lovely new beastie which has a PCI-Express Asus Radeon X600 in it... Running Sarge 2.6.8-1.i386 and XF86 4.3.0.1, P4 530, 512MB, 80GB SATA drive etc etc.. I had a similar experience when I got my shiny new Asus X800 XT..