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Good lord, I love Linux. I really do. Even after ten years of using it (well, nine years and ten months) it's still a mystery. Getting an antiquated sound chip working with wireless ether in an older laptop is a real joy. ;>

I gave up on using the alsa drivers, because, with the default Deadrat 7.2 kernel, there's some sort of conflict with the OSS drivers, or whatever it is that ships with the kernel. I'm not going to go through the make config pain, just to do away with that. As it was, it skr00d the module dependency graph, and kept the wlan driver from loading successfully. I'm not enough into system-level stuff anymore to bother debugging and replacing it, so I terminated it with extreme prejudice.

Anyway, it's working, and the main reason I had installed Linux on this machine was to see the sub-pixel font rendering, since I don't have (and won't install) WinXP. That aspect is quite lovely. It's still a slow box, though, and all of the available pretty-pretty tools take a long time to start. This isn't that old a box...it's a pII/233.

It's a throwaway laptop, and I could sell it on ebay now for about 10x what I paid for it, now that the novelty may have worn off. It may just end up being a CMU CL toybox.

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