31 Mar
2003
31 Mar
'03
11:06 a.m.
The issue at hand is that many of the newer machines
with cheapo
embedded video cards use Intel 845G chipset which is unsupported by RH
8.0's XFree 4.2.
I've just bought a P4 board with an 845 chipset, so thanks for the tip.
They're on quite a few boards, not just cheap ones.
Red Hat 9 is out today (Red Hat Network members only). It'll be interesting to
see if the Red Hat policy of breaking binary compatibility more often from
now on - with the freely downloadable distro at least - will affect its
suitability for audio workstation use. It seems the base distro isn't going
to be marketed as a product - it's just a technology testbed for the
non-free-beer Enterprise line now.
There are bound to be other distros catching up with XFree 4.3 too.
Cheers
Daniel