Re: Virtual PC
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 02:14:54PM -0800, nate wrote:
>
> <quote who="David Edwards">
> > Hi
> >
> > I have installed Debian on my imac using Virtual PC, but I am
> > having problems with X window.
> >
> > Do you know if Debian can run on VPC or will I have to change to
> > redhat?
>
> what video chip does virtualPC emulate? i haven't used
> it myself. when using VMWare it uses it's own video
> chip which requires a special driver. XFree 4.1 includes
> support for the vmware virtual chipset, but without
> a driver on other systems only 16colors is allowed.
It emulates an S3 Trio32 PCI card. Either the S3 Trio driver, or the
SVGA driver should work. I have Debian running under Virtual PC, but
haven't tried X11 under it.
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