RE: X server for crappy Packard Hell machine
My original linux box was a Packard Hell 486 SX 33 with 528k video board
that ran X server - slow but ran. I even used Window Maker. I like
punishment!! If you send me more details I try and help the best I can!!
Rod....
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Ballard [SMTP:sballard@netreach.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 10:15 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: X server for crappy Packard Hell machine
>
> Hi,
>
> I have installed debian slink on an old Packard Hell computer. Most
> things work fine, but the standard XF86_SVGA xserver appears to have
> some problems - it works, sort of, but once the screen gets busy I get
> random pixels going the wrong color. It appears as if video memory is
> sometimes getting randomly corrupted. If I was running windows, I would
> suspect a bad video driver - but I'm not running a video driver.
>
> I am sure that this is a case of crappy hardware, but I also know that
> windows managed to work around it somehow, so it can be done.
>
> Since the only documentation I have on the hardware is a sticker on the
> box which says "1Mb video memory upgradable to 2Mb", I configured X by
> accepting all the defaults I could find, and probing for anything it
> would let me probe for. This, of course, is probably what went wrong.
>
> Does anyone have any tips on how I can figure out how X *should* have
> been configured, or whether it would have been possible to use one of
> the accelerated servers instead of the basic one?
>
> Thanks a million,
> Stuart.
>
>
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