Re: Running X on a Diamond Stealth II S220
MallarJ2@aol.com wrote:
>
> I've got the above card on my PC at the office, and have a need to run X on
> it. Evidently, it isn't supported directly. (I'm using slink, by the way).
> I checked on X11.org and it doesn't appear to be supported by the XFree86
> servers either.
www.x11.org appears "defunct."
> There are, however, two that X11 packages that do support
> it, one that I don't want to pay $99 for, and the other, from SUSE. However,
> I can't seem to find the driver on SUSEs ftp site. Supposedly the server is
> called XFCom_Rendition.
>
> So... questions are:
>
> * Is this card supported by XFree yet, and just not listed?
It is supported ( XFree86, 3.3.5) and listed :
http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html
( The XFCom_Rendition was "wrapped" into XFree86)
You may get XFree86 and the XF86_SVGA x-server at:
http://www.debian.org/~vincent
URI for apt-get :
deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main
Cheers,
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