On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Mark Whidby wrote:

> Hi,
> Has anyone had any experience of SL (or Centos / RHEL) on the new
> Dell Optiplex 755 machines? Specifically does X work?

We got a 755 for testing a couple of days before I went on vacation (the 
last two weeks).  In the short time I had to play with it I found that 
plain 5.0 PXE installation couldn't drive the new network hardware, but 
the kernel in 5.1alpha could.  I assume that the one in 
5.1beta/beta2/release will also drive the network stuff but I've not had 
time to check yet (still catching up on my e-mail).

We *NEVER* have any luck with onboard Intel graphics so we stick to add-in 
cards.  I like the ATI X300/X600 cards which Dell used to ship but sadly 
those are now hard to find.  The newer X1050/X1300 (etc) cards will work 
with the VESA driver but then you get no fast 3D support...  Of course 
using the ATI proprietry driver migth solve that if I could be bothered.

[ Likewise every Nvidia card I seem to be able to buy seems now too new to 
get decent support from the Xorg driver.  I dislike te proprietory drivers 
because updates to e.g. kernels are then less trivial... ]

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