Re: Debian on Notebooks
In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.05.9811091658200.17234-100000@irony.org>,
D'jinnie <jinn@irony.org> writes
>
>:> The Acer notebook uses a very nice Neo magic video card. The only thing
>:> that is not nice about this video card is that it is not supported by
>:> Xfree 3.3.2.
>:>
>:> The Neo magic card is supported by Xfree 3.3.3 but that is not generally
>:> avaiable in distributions.
>:
>:xserver-neomagic is available as a Debian package
>:(dists/frozen/non-free/binary-i386/x11/xserver-neomagic_1.1.0-1-1.deb).
>
>However this is not the most recent version :) (although I can't see any
>difference between XBF and XFCom servers on my Omnibook 3000)
I could package the new one, but it wouldn't make it for the slink
release (as it is now frozen) and XFree should have added support
for potato, so I don't think it is worth updating the package.
AFAIK there have been no changes from XBF to XFCom apart from the
availability of source.
>Works well for me, a little slow to startup, and takes a nice chunk of
>RAM, but that's to be expected :)
>I thought Neomagic wouldn't release specs so XFree couldn't incorporate
>support for the cards?
They changed their minds :-)
See ya!
Ian
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