My next project: Goodbye Debian, hello ... Fedora or OpenSUSE?

Posted by Steven_Rosenber on Nov 6, 2008 12:56 PM EDT
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Here's the deal: I've been fighting with Debian Lenny for months on The $0 Laptop (Gateway Solo 1450), where I have everything running great except for my persistent problem with screen refresh in X. I've replaced the Intel i810 driver with the plain Intel driver, I've tweaked everything that can be tweaked in xorg.conf. I can't really get work done while my display is slowly disintegrating during the course of a computing session.

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Intel fixes Sander_Marechal 2 1,450 Nov 8, 2008 2:12 AM
Nothing unusual, it's just the Slackware way of doing things... garymax 1 1,391 Nov 6, 2008 2:33 PM

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