On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:54:35PM -0600, Gordon Sadler wrote: > You mean to say a Voodoo2 graphics card that is sold/marketed/used as a > 3D only chipset, can be used under X4 as a '2D' card? With no other > VESA/VGA card available? > > If that's true that's great, I have a V2 sitting here doing nothing, > don't play many games under Linux -). But I could use it build another > computer that's missing a graphics card, and use gdm/xdm/kdm to boot > straight to X4? As I understand it, the answer to the above questions is yes. I've never tried it myself, though. [...] > If the above is true, could you provide some pointers? All the material > I've been able to find about V2 is mostly 'how to get quake/doom/etc to > run on your V2 card and linux'. Probably the most straightforward thing to do is configure the xserver-xfree86 package using the debconf interface. Just select the "glide" driver. If xserver-xfree86 is already installed on such a box, just do: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Selection of the driver module will be a high priority question. -- G. Branden Robinson | "Why do we have to hide from the police, Debian GNU/Linux | Daddy?" branden@debian.org | "Because we use vi, son. They use http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | emacs."
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