Re: getting XFree (3) to work with geforce MX
On Wednesday 22 November 2000 18:32, you wrote:
> I had a machine with this card as well. At the time I looked, the
> documentation on xfree86.org said that this card is supported in the
> developement version of X 4.?.?, but not currently supported in the
> official release, but will be in the next official release.
well, thanks.. the problem is how to get X running with potato?
i don't want to tell my father to install woody.
i guess he will compile xfree 4 on his own if there is no other solution.
maybe this will break a lot of things (dependencies) so i don't have a good
fealing about this.. :(
isn't there ANY way in xfree 3(!) to get a not supported card to work??
even if it runs in svga compatible mode with only 4mb of detected video ram,
i wouldn;t care!! but it has to work!
it would be really a shame if it's not possible.
and do you think it is possible to compile xfree 4 into potato without huge
problems?
i hope somebody can help me. i don't want to believe, that debian is not able
to handle this situation :(((
Spark
> > i recently helped my father to install debian (potato r0) on his box.
> > everything was fine, but X is a problem. i have to say this was ever a
> > problem since he upgraded his graphic card to a hercules 3d prophet which
> > is using the geforce MX chipset.
> > he tried mandrake before but when it comes to auto detection, it damages
> > the display (not physically of course) so i can't even use the textmode
> > anymore. this is really ugly...
> > now with debian there is a similar problem. i used XF86Setup. in "cards",
> > i used the details, not one of the list and left everything on probing.
> > after starting the x server, everything was foobared again...
> > i know, that the geforce MX ist NOT supported with xfree 3 but i still
> > think it should be possible to run x in a kind of compatiblity mode isn't
> > it?? i don't care about all the fancy geforce features (in fact my
> > father's favorite game is nethack, so he's not in a hurry to install x,
> > but it would be really nice to show him the great new kde2 desktop!), but
> > it should be able to render 1024*768 with 32 bit colors in a reasonable
> > speed. what does i have to do exactly to make this work?
> > btw, it already worked using the VGA16 server and a generic vga driver.
> > but 640*480 is not a sollution ;)
> > i hope i can show him now how great the debian support is.. :))
> >
> > -Daniel
> >
> >
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