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Re: OOOOLLLLDDDD video card



On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:04:51PM -0600, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote:
|   I have to use a really old Phoenix S3 Trio32/64 PCI card, running
| Debian Woody, no mixed stable/testing/unstable. Is there a way to get
| Woody's xserver to work with this fossil?

Does that card support the VESA interface?  If so, use the 'vesafb'
driver in the kernel and the 'FBDev' driver in X.  It's really simple
to configure, actually.  (I use that setup because it's a lot simpler
than messing around with X options)

-D

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