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- From: cummings@hammer.prime.com (Kevin Cummings)
- Subject: Re: YANUI (Yet another new user inquiry!)?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.183519.28276@primerd.prime.com>
- Sender: cummings@hammer (Kevin Cummings)
- Organization: Prime Computer, Inc.
- References: <GHENNIGA.92Dec12000414@ampere.ampere> <1992Dec14.122821.2266@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:35:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.122821.2266@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, tjrc1@cus.cam.ac.uk (T.J.R. Cutts) writes:
- > In article <GHENNIGA.92Dec12000414@ampere.ampere>, ghenniga@NMSU.Edu writes:
- >
- > |> My second question is, is there any SVGA support for my video card,
- > |> F1280 (S3 based)? I can't even get mono X support to work on my card. A
- > |> 'startx', with X being configured for mono, appears to put my card in
- > |> graphics mode but then just locks up my machine, and this IS for mono
- > |> support since the color configuration gives me definate error messages and
- > |> exits X without locking up.
- >
- > You need the S3 server. This is available at various sites; I got my copy from
-
- Only if he wants to run in color, or wants to run using clocks other than
- 25MHz and 28MHz, or if he wants the server to take advantage of the accelerated
- capabilities of the video card. He can run the generic vga2 server in
- 640x480 without too much trouble directly on the F1280. He cannot however
- run the vga256 server. For that he nedds the X386-S3 driver that you mentioned.
-
- > robots.ox.ac.uk (or maybe it was ftp.robots.ac.uk, I can't remember). Once
-
- It's on ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk (otherwise known as quickly.robots.ox.ac.uk).
-
- > you've got that, I will pre-empt some other problems you will have:
- >
- > 1) Uncompress all your font files
-
- especially the font for default!
-
- > 2) Run mkfontdir
-
- from /usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts run "mkfontdir misc" and "mkfontdir 75dpi".
-
- > 3) Replace your Xconfig fontpath line with that from the supplied Xconfig.mono
- >
- > This is what I did, and now have X speeding along at 1024x768 in glorious
- > technicolour...
-
- And who could ask for anything more?
-
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