[PLUG] My Dell Inspiron 5100 has bios revision A28...

[E. Rogan Creswick]

Michael Robinson writes:
 > Logging out under X is not working.  Do I need an acpi patch for the 
 > 2.4.26 kernel?  How about a dsdt patch?  

I imagine that depends on how it is not working.

 > I have found that a number of people put Debian on these, but when I 
 > looked into the Debian site it warned about compromise.  The Woody
 > install cd seems to be using a 2.2 kernel.  Maybe the stable version is 
 > too old?!?!?  What version do I want?  
 
 Try the bf24 kernel on the install disk.

 > How do you compile the driver for the Radeon grpahics chipset?  Do I 

The ati driver or the dri driver? (or the framebuffer driver?) 

This depends somewhat on which radeon you have.

dri/framebuffer: just like the other drivers. 
ati: follow the ati instructions (search for linux radeon howto)

 > Do I need the source for X to compile the dri
 > driver?  
 
No. I really suggest you read some documentation, many of your
questions will be answered by 10-15 min of your time reading a radeon
how-to.

-Rogan

 > 
 > What is the difference between Redhat's kernel source and source from 
 > ftp.kernel.org?
 > 
 >      --  Michael C. Robinson
 > 
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