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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 96 08:09:00 EDT From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) we want to put Linux on a 760ED, anyone have a good starting point? is there an FAQ which would help? What special drivers do we need etc? Thanks for any help! The main problem with the 760 series seems to be the video support (surprise). There has been considerable trouble getting the 760C to work right -- to my knowledge there is only one XFree86 server that works correctly, a patched unreleased one -- and I have heard some rumblings to the effect that none of the existing servers works on the 760E series (but this is rumor not fact). There are also some weird timing problems with the 760C, which may or may not be present in the 760E. Things to watch out for include: very bad ethernet and SCSI performance, including occasional hard crashes with SCSI, and missed LCP echo packets in PPP, causing random disconnects. The ethernet and SCSI problems are solved by using a recent development kernel and PCMCIA. I don't know of any solution to the PPP problems, just workarounds. And of course, MWave doesn't work at all, although there are some people working on fixing this. I am uncertain about whether this effort will converge.