[ale] Upgrade hell

[Geoffrey]

Dow Hurst wrote:
> Cor,
> Is this a Sony Viao?  If so, what is the video chipset in the laptop?  
> You may have a problem related to that chipset.  I had a Dell Latitude 
> that ran fine under SuSE 7.1 but has all kinds of low level problems 
> under 9.1.  I think a bug was introduced and never fixed for the 
> Neomagic chipsets.  I had the Neomagic256ZX in the Latitude.

I guess it would depend on how old it is.  My Sony Vaio works great, but 
it wasn't around when RH 6.2 came out and it was preloaded by Emperor 
Linux.  It has an ati video card.

What video card does it have?

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Until later, Geoffrey