[ltp] Mandrake 8.0 works (why?)

[George Staikos]

On Wednesday 06 June 2001 11:21, M. Leo Cooper wrote:
> I just did my second install of Mandrake 8.0 on a TP 760XL (have a couple
> of spare HDs to play around with). Both times, the stock kernel works
> fine with the PS/2 erasor-head mouse (didn't need to rebuild it). Either
> Mandrake hurriedly patched the kernel to work or I did something wrong
> and my mistake cancelled out Mandrake's.*

   Yes things worked fine on my i series as well.  It's quite a nice distro.

> XF86 4.0.3 still doesn't work with the Trident TGUI 9660 chipset, so I
> had to revert back to 3.3.6, which is fine. Hopefully, they'll get the
> Trident driver right sometime in the 4.X series.

   Did you check XFree86 4.1 yet?  The SRPM is available on Mandrake cooker 
and builds cleanly for me.

-- 

George Staikos


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