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Re: why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?



On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 12:21:33AM +0100, Wilko Fokken wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 12:23:45PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > Moin Wilko!
> > Wilko Fokken schrieb am Sunday, den 26. October 2003:
> > 
> > ...
> > Ehm, you realize that your case is somehow constructed? ET4000 is about
> > 10 years old, it is at least 3-4 mainstream generations far away from
> > the current mainstream cards. Further, you don't need X on a mail
> > gateway.
> > ...
> > What is "SVGA-compatible" from driver's point of view? If your card is
> > not supported by any of the SVGATextMode drivers, the only choice you
> > have is VESA framebuffer. Which, again, requires a VESA2.0 compliant
> > video card and I not sure whether ET4000 was a such one.
> > 
> > MfG,
> > Eduard.
> > 
> 
> Mooi'n dag ok, Eduard,	
> 
> thanks for your hints, but (not to feed on any cheese of honour) my card
> really is an ET4000_W32 and it works pretty sharp in "1024x768" mode; my
> text mode "100x37x9_SVGA" works brilliant. (Perfect for 'mutt' with
> "syntax on" in '/etc/vim/vimrc')
> 
> Of course, changing graphical contents is a bit slow, but I would't do
> without my higher resolution text mode.
> 
> So I'd appreciate any information about identifying PCI-based graphic
> cards being either SVGA-compatible or VESA2.0 compliant.

SiS6326-based cards are cheap, are available in PCI format, and can be
used with svgatextmode using my ClockProg. They're crap for games but
fine for desktop stuff.

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