On Sat, 2003-09-13 12:19:48 -0500, Kelledin <kelledin+DAXP@skarpsey.dyndns.org>
wrote in message <[🔎] 200309131219.48509.kelledin+DAXP@skarpsey.dyndns.org>:
> On Saturday 13 September 2003 08:01 am, Maciej Matysiak wrote:
> First of all, to the best of my knowledge, XFree86 4.x prior to
> 4.3 does NOT build its cirrus logic drivers (unless someone
> knows of some obscure patch I've missed). Not sure why. I'm
> guessing they just weren't ported at the time. XFree86 4.3.0,
> OTOH, actually builds the cirrus logic drivers.
As I said, it's not about getting the VGA based stuff to work in
640x640x4. It's about getting the rendering engines up'n'running.
> When I got my LX164, I basically switched out all the peripherals
> for better ones--the Tulip NIC for an eepro100, the SCSI cards
I prefer Tulip over eepro100.
> for a 2940UW, and the vidcard for a Radeon 7500. The old
I prefer the sym53cXX stuff over those Adaptec boards...
> vidcard (S3 Trio64 POS) had problems working with XFree86, so
> you probably don't want that.
That's indeed a dodgy slow thing:)
MfG, JBG
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