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Bug#177867: marked as done (X Server Crash)



On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:42:09PM -0500, Branden Robinson scrawled:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:52:03AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:48:14AM -0600, Branden Robinson scrawled:
> > > Try changing the driver you use to "s3", though I don't recall off the
> > > top of my head how well the old S3 Trio chips are supported by the
> > > version of XFree86 4.x in woody (Debian 3.0).
> > 
> > They're not.
> 
> In that case I suggest trying the "vesa" driver, or upgrading to Debian
> "testing", which contains XFree86 4.2.1, which contains support for
> several varities of Trio64 chips.
> 
> http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.1/Status28.html#28
> 
> Alternatively, you can continue to use the xserver-s3 or xserver-svga
> packages from XFree86 3.3.6 (whichever works better for you), which are
> still available for the i386 architecture.

I just made do with using i386. I've now given my Diamond Stealth64
Video, cool as it was, away, because I have an AGP Radeon 9000. I'm
planning to start using a.out soon, and my sundial's due any week now!

:) d

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Daniel Stone                                     <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au>
Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne

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