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Re: of Xservers and XSetup, of sabotage and kinks...



There are those who would have you believe that S.J. Black wrote:
> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 23:23:36 -0700
> From: "S.J. Black" <alphafemale@radiant.net>
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16 i586)
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: of Xservers and XSetup, of sabotage and kinks...
> 
> Hi All -
> 
> Just downloaded 2.2 - verrry sweet ftp install! I've run into a small
> problem with getting/finding/installing the XServer, though, and was
> wondering if someone could help with this.
> 
> I did grab the XFree 4.0 stuff, as XF86Setup was quite insistent that I
> did not have the "required server" for my Diamond Viper 770. Looked at
> the documentation for NVidia, and came out of the 2 hour doc-search no
> wiser than before. Again, was surprised to find setup telling me the
> required server didn't exist. 
> 
> Any suggestions? 
> 

The Diamond Viper 770 is based on the NVidia TNT2 chip.  It's
supported by the SVGA server in X 3.3.6.  For 4.0.1, you can use the
"nv" driver, or you can go to NVidia's website (http://www.nvidia.com)
to download their accelerated server.



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