[Glastonbury] suse license

[peter cole]

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 06:45, Greg Browne wrote:
> Andy
> The mboard is an MSI KM2M VIA KM 266 chipset, Athlon 2200, Savage 8
> 2D/3D integrated, 128MB and thereby might be the problem. Last year I
> tried Debian Woody on a VIA and on a SiS chipset board and couldn't
> get a GUI. I was advised that Xfree didn't support the chipsets at the
> time and eventually I gave up. This time I can get a GUI with Debian
> Sarge but only at 640x480, what ever changes I make to the xfree
> configuration file. At 640x480 I can find no way to set up KMail, as
> some of the buttons disappear off the screen and I cannot 'fish' them
> back or make sensible guesses at the 'next' keystrokes.
> 
> Both KNOPPIX and SUSE load up a better GUI, and at a higher resolution
> but if I copy the Xfree config files across to Debian or just the AGP
> settings, then I loose the GUI altogether and cannot get xwindows to
> start, just a blank screen and no error messages.
> 
> > Since you've got Debian running at
> > least to command line level, it makes little sense just to junk the
> > effort you've made.
> 
> Hopefully I'll meet up at some user group meeting but Wincanton is
> some way from Glastonbury and I'm not aware of any local Linux
> expertise. 
I am in Wincanton also But not really an expert have been using Linux
for about 5 years 

> I take it that you are out of area. I also think that you
> have opened the door to the answer, thank you, so ,when I have some
> more time, I'll pick this up again, read the xfree forums and see what
> advice I can gleen.
> 
> Meanwhile, I can get some functionality out of this computer, under
> Debian, surf the web etc, but it is very limited. I'm also running
> SUSE on it which is OKish. Maybe I should just stick to SUSE but i am
> having some difficulties with that as well, which I wont go into
> 
> Andy, I think I'm reply direct to you, rather than to the group, for
> which I apologise - I hadn't noticed this
> 
> Thanks again, Greg

Regards 

Peter Cole