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Re: questions on J6700 and its FX10-pro graphics card



On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 10:17:12PM +0100, kmaziz wrote:
> Ive bought a HP J6700, and ive been reading that the FX10-Pro graphics card
> is not supported on any linux dist.
> Why is that?
Lack of documentation for those graphics cards.

> Is it possible to put in a supported graphic card and use Xorg
> with it? If not, why?
> Has anyone done it?

Yes and Yes.
See the graphics how-to on the www.parisc-linux.org FAQ.

> How is it to install debian-hppa? is it similar to the regular install of
> debian?

For the most part yes.
Boot and device drivers are different.

> Is debian-hppa exacly the same as regular debian?

Once installed and running, nearly all of debian runs.
A few x86 specific packages are not available.


grant

> 
> best regards



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