Re: Xwindows

[Ossama Othman <othman@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu>]

Hi Mike,

Below is the message I sent to some one else who was having problems with
his Voodoo Rush card.  I hope that it helps.

-Ossama


Forwarded message:
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I too have a card with the Voodoo Rush chipset, an Intergraph Intense 3D
Voodoo.  The Xserver/driver that you want is in the latest XF86_SVGA
server, i.e. in XF86 3.3.2.  I'm not sure if that is available as a bo set
of packages.  If it isn't just download the Linux_ix86 XF86-3.3.2 binaries
(not the glibc ones) from any XF86 mirror.  The glibc XF86 binaries are
for Linux libc6/glibc2, not Linux libc5 which is what is normally found on
bo systems (Debian 1.3.1) such as yours.
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The binaries you might want to get include:

	XF86SVGA.tgz
	XF86bin.tgz
	XF86lib.tgz
	XF86set.tgz
	XF86cfg.tgz
	
and perhaps some others and some fonts.  Use your judgement and read the
binary installation instructions. :)

>From what I recall, the tar files are archived relative to /usr/X11R6.

Be careful where XF86Setup and/or xf86config store the XF86Config file
after you are done configuring X.  Debian places the XF86Config file in
/etc/X11 and XF86 stores it in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/(something or other) by
default.  You can choose where to save the XF86Config file right after the
setup is done, I believe.  Also, if the setup/config programs ask you
whether or not to set a symbolic link to X, then answer "no" or whatever
the negative response is.  Debian's "X" is an suid wrapper for the X
server.  The server to use is set at the very top of /etc/X11/Xserver.

Good luck.

-Ossama


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