Red Hat 9 on a Thinkpad 770? (Re: [ltp] getting RH 9)

[Bert Haskins]

Were you able to get the built-in modem to work "well" in your 770X
under RH8 ?
Thanks,
    Bert



Charles E Taylor IV wrote:

> On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:46:45 -0500 (EST)
> <dag-ltp at emailias.com> wrote:
>
> > I got mine from BitTorrent:  http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent
> >
> > BitTorrent requires python version 2.  On my RH 7.3 box, 1.5 was the
> > default.  Switching the system to python 2 broke up2date, so I changed
> > the BitTorrent python scripts to use python2.2.
>
> The big question:  Is it worth the hassle to get it now, or should we just
> wait a week when every mirror on $DEITY's green earth will have it?
>
> My big quesrion is simply this:
>
> Does the xv extension work properly on Trident Cyber 9397DVD cards such
> as those found in Thinkpad 770X/Zs? The one in Red Hat 8.0 was broken -
> which made DVD playback sloooow until I "downgraded" to the trident driver
> from Red Hat 7.3, which did work.
>
> Anyone tried RH9 on a Thinkpad 770X/Z and tried DVD playback?
>
> If no one speaks up, I'll probably bite the bullet and grab RH9 later next
> week and install it on my 770X, but it'd be nice if I didn't have to fight
> the machine to get DVD playback working ... :)
>
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