On Sunday 04 December 2005 01:01 am, Fielder George Dowding wrote:
> I got the beast running in "repair" mode (single user, only root can
> log in), installed some of my must have utilities (apache, vim, lynx,
> and after apache was installed, dwww), then used lynx to do a
> google-linux search for "ati 5955". I found one site for gentoo that
> listed my machine (HP Pavilion zv6000 series) and mentioned the ATI
> Mobility Radeon Xpress 200 series graphics adapter. Well, gentoo
> doesn't have any magic driver. They just use the vesa driver, but it
> did point out to disable the vga driver. Not overly satisfactory, but I
> can use it now and I will be able to join the throngs seeking a full
> fledged, full featured, GPL'd, driver for this ATI chip.
In response to the 'some joy' my Debian-AMD64 mirror finally finished,
took 5?days, (36 gb), using the ~.mit.edu mirror. The good news is the
cron job of updating it started & finished during the night , so the
painful part is over.
Good luck with the rest :-)
Greg Madden
Precision Air Balance, Inc.
Phone: (907)276-0461
email: pabi@acsalaska.net
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