Re: Mach64 cards work with SX164 and Debian - Only kernel 2.4 makes trouble
My bad...I was thinking Mach32. Ignore me :-P
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Fabrice Haberer-Proust wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Mach64 cards aren't supported on Alpha,
>
> Are you sure?
>
> I've been using Linux with my Alpha since two years and more. At the very
> beginning, I had an ATI card and X worked perfectly with RedHat 5.3. Now,
> I am writting this message under X with SuSE 7.0 an another ATI card.
>
> But, much more important, it also WORKS THIS THE DEBIAN 2.2r3 when I start
> it with the original kernel 2.2.18pre.
>
> The problem I have is only when I start with the 2.4.12.
>
> > Did this card work on SuSE and, if so,
> > what Xserver where they using?
>
> The Mach64 driver.
>
> > FYI, SuSE released some binary-only
>
> That's possible, but when I do rpm -qi xmach64, I see:
>
> Source RPM: xf86_3x-3.3.6-85.src.rpm
>
> so I think the source is available.
>
> > Xservers a while back which we never packaged on Debian simply because
> > they appeared to be one-shot releases with no sign of updates since.
>
> I fully agree with this policy, that is another reason why I would be so happy
> to use the Debian.
>
> If you need other informations, please ask them to me, I really would like
> to solve this problem.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Fabrice Haberer-Proust
>
>
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