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- From: ioi@widget.seas.upenn.edu (Ioi Kim Lam)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Help! How can I get just VGA?
- Message-ID: <102032@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 22:04:22 GMT
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- Organization: University of Pennsylvania
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- I am new to Linux. I've been trying to run X386 on my 486/33 but failed
- miserably. I am using a Evolution VGA card from STB and could not find its
- clore rates in modeDB.txt. I tried to mess around with the clock rates
- myself, setting the chipset to be et4000, and finally it seemed that I
- have got it right. I can see a stable screen (640x480). But the problem is
- the driver does not seem to know the arrngement of the RAM in my card and
- the output is messed up. The output is like this
-
-
- _________________________
- |s x ______|
- |__________________|s |
- | x __________|
- |______________|s x |
- | _________________|
- |_______|s_________x______|
-
-
- where s marks the beginning of the vider buffer and x is the mouse cursor.
-
-
- I would appreciate if anyone can answer my questions:
-
- 1) What chipset does Evolution VGA Card use? I got it in a bundle
- from Insight Computer Inc, which I found in PC Megazine.
-
- 2) If my card is not supported by X386, is there a way that I can
- just run X in standard VGA (640 x 480 x 16color)? My X386 comes with SLS
- distribution 0.98 in tsx-11.mit.edu (DEC 10, 1992). It just has modes
- defined for VGA2 and VGA256.
- I would be quite satisfied with 640x480x2 color VGA, no virtual
- desktop, no speed up and nothing else.
-