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Re: X whacking monitor



On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:14:26PM -0500, Mike M wrote:
> On Monday 03 February 2003 17:30, Jonathan Matthews wrote:
> I saw on the XFree86 list the the 3D acelerator is not working yet on the 
> chip.  Evidently this is important to gamers.  I also saw someone mention 
> that X 3 and X 4.2  works better with the card than X 4.1
> 
> > Yes, it works.  Just not very well.
> 
> Describes my experience.  I am using X 4.1.
> >
> > If it wasn't soldered onto the d*mn motherboard, I'd have it straight
> > out of there.  If you have the option, because it's on a card, just
> > dump it and get something decent.
> 
> Yup.  Not looking forward to changing X or a video card.  Changing the card 
> seems to more prudent move, especially since it's been labeled as a "joke".

If you decide to give X4.2 a go, you can get woody debs for it from
http://people.debian.org/~blade/woody/, which will save you an enormous
amount of time.

-- 
Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org>				http://ertius.org/

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