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Re: mach64 alternatives



On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:37:53 -0400 (EDT)
Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> wrote:

> Out of curiosity, what video card makers can debian sid just use out of 
> the box without all of this aggravation?  I had a trident vga with this 
> machine earlier and if that's a good one, it will be easier to replace a 
> monitor and change out a video card than what's going on over here now. 
> The common dri stuff compiled and built well enough but modules aren't 
> available for kernel 2.6.12-1-speakup-686 that I can find and download 
> anywhere.  Next time modules will be available is when that all goes up to 
> 2.6.17-x and I don't know when that will be.  No, I haven't yet succeded 
> in building a kernel and patching it with speakup, when I try that project 
> I think will be on a day with nothing else I'm trying to do so if it 
> doesn't work, neither does the failure break anything permanently. 
> gnopernicus along with gnome-speech and festival can get gnome talking if 
> we don't have these video problems to contend with ahead of time.  I can 
> sometimes get sighted assistance that's had more experience than I've had 
> to date but tonight isn't one of these times and this has been an ongoing 
> project for a few months.
> 

Debian will support all cards. dri (accelerated 3d) is supported for all cards
that have a dri driver available in the kernel. Have a look under

/lib/modules/<kernel version>/kernel/drivers/char/drm/

> 
> 



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